Streams vocabulary

Streams are

• bigger than brooks, but smaller than creeks

• small rivers

• water flowing out of a spring

• bodies of water that have a current, including brooks, creeks, bayous, and rivers

Define tributaries

• small rivers or streams that flow into a large river or stream
• a natural stream of water of considerable volume
• precipitation that flows over the land to streams
• a continuous ridge that separates a watershed

The beginning of a stream or river is

• lips
• mouth
• head
• stream channel

A long, low area carved by a stream or glacier with higher areas on both sides.

• channel
• valley
• gorge
• plateau

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The part of a river that flows into a lake, reservoir or ocean

• Delta
• Mouth
• Deposition
• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Riverbanks are changed due to erosion (wearing away).

• True
• False

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It can take thousands of years but a river can carve a _____________ into rocks.

• source
• slope
• canyon
• slope

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The course where moving water is 

• floodplain
• drainage basin
• channel
• valley

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A flat area next to the stream that gets sediment when the river overflows its banks

• floodplain
• drainage basin
• tributary
• channel

Land that supplies water to a river system.

• wetlands
• watershed
• estuary
• river system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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