GEOL 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Water Cycle, Natural Disaster, Evaporation
10 Sep 2018
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A flood occurs anytime a water body overflows or when an unusual amount of water collects in dry areas. A watershed is an area of land where all runoff drains or (cid:494)sheds(cid:495) into another body. A watershed can also e referred to as a catchment or a drainage basin. A watershed can be seen on a may by a divide around a region drained from a tributary into a river. basin to another. A tributary is a small stream flowing into a larger one. A divide is a ridge of a strip of high ground that separates drainage from one. Describes the movement of water and water vapor from the sea to the. The hydrological cycle is a summary of the circulation of water atmosphere, to the land, and back to sea and atmosphere. A stream is a body of running water in a channel moving downhill because of gravity.
