Erosion Flashcards
The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transport soil and sediment from one location to another.
Erosion
The process by which rock materials are broken down by the action of physical and chemical processes.
Weathering
The continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean.
Water Cycle
The process that changes liquid water to gaseous water.
Evaporation
The process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.
Condensation
Water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
Precipitation
Water “running off” the land surface.
Surface runoff
A stream that flows into a lake or into a larger stream.
Tributary
The area of land that is drained by a water system.
Watershed
A boundary that separates a continent’s river systems.
Continental divide
The process in which material is laid down.
Deposition
A fan-shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream.
Delta
An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks.
Floodplain
The upper surface of underground water; the upper boundary of the zone of saturation.
Water table
A facility that cleans the waste materials found in the water that comes from sewers or drains.
Sewage treatment plants
