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| Level below the water table completely filled with water |
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| Level above water table that is filled with air |
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| Where the aeration and saturation layers meet underground |
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| Smaller streams or rivers that flow into a larger one |
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| When a river gets wider by erosion |
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| Water that flows across land and collects in rivers streams and eventually the ocean |
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| The land drained by a river system which includes the main river and all of its tributaries |
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| An area along a river formed from sediments deposited by floods |
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| Water that is located within rocks below the Earth's surface |
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| Where a river gets longer |
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| Liquids will not pass through |
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| Materials carried in a stream's water |
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| A fan shaped deposite of alluvium at the mouth of a stream where the stream empties into a large body of water |
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| Fan shaped deposites of alluvium that form on dry land |
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| The grinding and weathering down of rock surfaces by other rock or sand particles |
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| An area of higher ground that seperates drainage baisins |
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