Geography- Terminology Flashcards
Water Table
The level below which the ground is saturated with water.
Tributaries
A stream or river that flows into a main or parent river.
Confluence
Where two or more bodies of water meet together, usually refers to the joining of tributaries.
Watershed
An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different river, brains or seas.
Drainage Basin
An area drained by a river and all its tributaries.
River Mouth
The part of a stream where it flows into a sea, river, lake, reservoir or ocean.
River Source
Eye or Headwaters.
The furthest pint from which water could possibly flow.
Distributaries
A stream that branches off and flows away from the main stream channel.
Interfluve
High lying ground between tributaries within a drainage basin.
Floodplain
An area of land next to a river that is prone to flooding.
Meander
The twisting and turning of a river.
Entrenched Meander
The land is limiting against the river. The land was once flat but then it began to lift as the plates moved and no the land is lifting equal to the rate of erosion.
Levees
Stabilizing river bank.
Aquifer
Porous.
Water can flow through it.
Aquiclude
Non porous.
Water cannot flow through it.
