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| Stream that flows into a lake or larger stream |
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| What watershed do we live in? |
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| Path that a stream follows |
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| What is discharge measured in? |
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| Amount of material carried |
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| Particles small enough to be carried |
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| Big sediments that drift on the bottom |
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| That rivers erode in the same way at the same rate. |
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| How do rivers actually erode (despite Davis's theory) |
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| Different materials erode at different rates |
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- Channel deeper than wide
- High gradient
- few tributaries
- low discharge
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| Where are Youthful Rivers? |
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- Channel wider than deep
- low gradient
- many tributaries (drains larger area)
- large discharge
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- low gradient
- very wide
- bends/meanders
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| Any river altered by uplift |
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| Places where the current is slower and things get deposited |
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| Fast current hits slow current and creates a fan of deposition |
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| High gradient hits low gradient and water dries on the land |
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| Forms from sediment deposited when river overflows bank |
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| Helps keep river inside its banks |
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| What does a levee also do? |
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