Streams and Rivers

Question 1

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

Answer 1

stream

Question 2

What is the area of land where water drains into a stream?

Answer 2

drainage basin

Question 3

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

Answer 3

divide

Question 4

What is an area on either side of a stream where it floods and becomes fertile soil?

Answer 4

floodplain

Question 5

What are twists and curves in a steam?

Answer 5

meanders

Question 6

What are parts of a stream that get cut off and form small lakes?

Answer 6

oxbows

Question 7

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

Answer 7

alluvial fan

Question 8

What is a 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 causes water to move on Earth?

Answer 10

gravity

Question 11

What three things affect the rate at which a stream flows?

Answer 11

slope, volume, shape

Question 12

Where does erosion occur on a stream?

Answer 12

on the outside of the meanders

Question 13

Where does deposition occur on a stream?

Answer 13

on the inside of a meanders