Rivers and Flooding

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The configuration of the channel as seen from an airplane is called? This is area that supplies the water for a river system?

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channel pattern

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The process of restoring stream channels and adjacent areas to a more natural state.

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channel restoration

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Straighten, deepen, widen, or otherwise modifying a stream channel?

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channelization

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The volume of water moving by a particular location in a river per unit time is the river's

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discharge.

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The volume of water moving by a particular location in a river per unit time is the rivers

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continuity equation.

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These floods are produced by storms of long duration, the water will rise slowly and last a long time?

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downstream floods

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Area that contributes surface water to a particular stream network is called

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drainage basin.

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Water that does not infiltrate but moves over the surface of the Earth is called

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runoff.

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A large stream is called a

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river.

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Earthen embankments along a river channel that protect the land, like we have along the Mississippi River, is called

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levee.