01:460:206 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pearson Education, Surface Runoff, Environmental Geology
17 Jan 2015
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Living with earth: an introduction to environmental geology (hudson) Chapter 7 rivers and flooding: the boundaries between watersheds of all sizes are elevated areas called, runoff, tributaries, divides, trunk rivers, channels. Answer: b: what do we call a stream that has s-shaped curves, meandering, alluvium, graded, linking, discharging. Answer: a: the loss in elevation of a river channel is its, gradient, mouth, base level, cutbank, watershed. 1: what does the stage of a river mean, the volume of water in the river, how long the river is, how wide the river is, how high the river is, all of the above. Answer: d: a natural levee is, mounds of alluvium built up along the sides of a stream, a type of dam, an s-shaped river, a lake created by a short cut in a meander, a fan-shaped deposit. Answer: b: the bank-full stage of a river is lower than the flood-stage.
