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A channel through which water is continually flowing downhill is a stream. A large channel in soil that carries runoff after a rainstorm is a gully.
Artificial levees is one traditional flood control method has been to attempt to keep the stream's flow within its channel. A drainage basin is the land area that contributes water to a stream.Ê
The path that a stream follows is a channel.
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Gravity pulls the stream channel downward.
When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that it carries onto its floodplain
this is called a meandering stream.
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The path that a stream follows is a channel.
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