Chapter 4

Watershed we live in

• Susquehanna

• Mississippi

• Deleware

• Rocky

water that flows over a land surface

• Wateshed

• Cocalico Creek

• Mountain

• Runoff

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What is a watershed

• An area of land that drains runoff into a larger body

• An area of land that gets lower

• An area of land that absorbs ice

• An area where water goes

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The percentage of water is saltwater is ___%

The slow movement of surface water into rock or soil through rocks and pore space

• Transpiration

• Water Cycle

• Infiltration

• Movement

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Lowest point to which a stream can erode it's channel

• Base Level

• headwaters

• mouth

• Meander

Meandering means?

• cut off section

• Wide turns

• not steep

• slow flowing

A long time the earth was covered in ice; cold tempetures

• Stone Age
• Bronze Age
• Iron Age
• Ice Age

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Longest river in the USA is called the ​ (a)  

• Mississippi River
• Nile RIver
• Delaware River
• Middle Creek

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Headwaters

,

(b) Mature River Valley

,

(c) Old Age Stage

• Meander

• Tributaries

• Spring

• Wetlands

• Waterfalls

• delta

• V-shaped valleys

• Oxbow Lake

• Levee

• Mouth

• Rapids

• Estuary

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