FLUVIAL LANDFORMS

Question 1

fluvial processes inscribed as branching patterns of stream channels and drainage divides

Answer 1

drainage systems

Question 2

law stating that streams cause drainage patterns, valley systems, and encompassing drainage basin

Answer 2

playfair’s law

Question 3

• does not correlate to the topology/geology of the area
• follows path irrespective of changes in topography

Answer 3

discordant drainage patterns

Question 4

• inconsequent
• established prior to the growth of the structure they cross
• erosion rate > uplift rates

Answer 4

antecedent

Question 5

• superinduced
• attains course across geologic structures
• discovers buried structures

Answer 5

superimposed

Question 6

concordant drainage pattern as a direct consequence of original surface slope

Answer 6

consequent stream

Question 7

concordant drainage pattern where course is determined by selective headward erosion along weak strata

Answer 7

subsequent streams

Question 8

concordant drainage pattern where course follows original relief at a lower elevation

Answer 8

resequent streams

Question 9

concordant drainage pattern where stream flows opposite of the consequent stream

Answer 9

obsequent stream

Question 10

concordant drainage pattern of random dendritic patterns

Answer 10

insequent streams

Question 11

Vs of streams at point of confluence point downstream

Vs of contour lines point upstream

Answer 11

rule of Vs

Question 12

an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point and flows into another body of water

Answer 12

drainage basin

Question 13

• aka watershed
• water parts/ elevated terrain separates neighboring drainage basins

Answer 13

drainage divide

Question 14

river/stream flowing into larger river/lake

Answer 14

tributary

Question 15

branch of river that does not return to the main stream

Answer 15

distributary