HW 11 Chpt 12 Flashcards
The term flood describes an event in which
normally dry land is submerged in water.
The distinction between slow-onset floods and flash floods is that
the former occur over days to weeks; the latter occur over minutes to hours.
The region where the initial waters that flow in a stream originate is referred to as
the headwaters.
When streams empty into a standing body of water, what type of morphological feature is produced?
a delta
In the figure below, identify the two features labeled 1 and 2.
1) point bar; 2) cut bank
As it relates to stream flow, discharge is a hydrological term that describes
the volume of water passing through a cross-sectional area of a stream over time.
Referring to the image below, the term used to describe the delay between peaks in precipitation and peak discharge for a stream is known as
the lag time.
Floods that inundate developed areas are known as
urban floods.
