The Work Of Streams

The maximum load a stream can carry. It is directly related to a stream’s discharge.

• Water

• Capacity

• Bed Load

• Flood

Bed Load

• Water at the bottom of a lake.

• Juice from an orange.

• A load of solid material made up of sediment that is to heavy to be carried by the stream.

• The sorted material deposited by a stream.

Floodplain

• The side to side cutting of a stream will erode the rocks and create a valley floor.

• A load of solid material made up of sediment that is to heavy to be carried by the stream.

• Where rice is grown.

• When rain falls on a flat surface and creates a stream.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The sorted material deposited by a stream.

• Dasani

• Delta

• Water Flow

• Alluvium

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Delta

• Capacity

• The side to side cutting of a stream will erode the rocks and create a valley floor or a flood plain.

• An accumulation of of sediment formed where a stream enters a lake or ocean.

• The maximum load a stream can carry.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Natural Levee

• When a stream overflows its bank and the speed of the stream slows down rapidly, and leaves sediments as a boarder to the channel.

• The greater the volume of water in a stream is, the greater its capacity is for carrying sediment.

• The sorted material deposited by a stream.

• The Amazon River.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The land area that contributes water to a stream.

• Flow Conductor

• Drainage Basin

• Drain Water

• Stand Pipe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Flood

• When a stream overflows its bank and the speed of the stream slows down rapidly and leaves sediments as a boarder to the channel.

• A load of solid material made up of sediment that is to heavy to be carried by the stream.

• Occurs when the discharge of a stream becomes so great that it exceeds the capacity of its channel and overflows its banks.

• Water from the ocean floor that reaches the top of a mountain during the winter.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

An imaginary line that separates the drainage basins of one stream from another.

• Floodplain

• Drainage Basin

• Delta

• Divide