Water Erosion

Question 1

What is a body of water that flows down a slope in a channel?

Answer 1

stream

Question 2

What is an area of land in which water drains into a stream?

Answer 2

drainage basin

Question 3

What is a ridge from which water runs along side one another?

Answer 3

divide

Question 4

What is an area of land on either side of a stream?

Answer 4

floodplain

Question 5

What is a curve in a stream?

Answer 5

meander

Question 6

What is a lake that is formed from a meander being cut off from the stream?

Answer 6

oxbow

Question 7

What is a fan shaped deposit of sediment at the base of a mountain?

Answer 7

alluvial fan

Question 8

What is an area of land formed by the build up of sediment at the mouth of a river?

Answer 8

delta

Question 9

What is a smaller river that flows into a larger river?

Answer 9

tributary

Question 10

What three things affect the flow of a river?

Answer 10

slope, volume, and shape

Question 11

Where does a straight stream flow the fastest?

Answer 11

in the center

Question 12

Where does a straight stream have more deposition?

Answer 12

on the sides

Question 13

Where does a curvy stream flow the quickest?

Answer 13

outside of the meander

Question 14

Where does a curvy stream flow the slowest?

Answer 14

inside the meander

Question 15

Where does a curvy stream have more erosion?

Answer 15

outside of the meander

Question 16

Where does a curvy stream have more deposition?

Answer 16

inside the meander

Question 17

What age of stream moves fast, has a v-shaped valley, waterfalls, and erodes the bottom more than the sides?

Answer 17

young

Question 18

What age of stream slows through a floodplain, forms meanders, and may form oxbows?

Answer 18

old

Question 19

What age of stream has eroded rocks, eroded sides, and a flat valley floor?

Answer 19

mature