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What is the flat low lying area adjacent to a stream channel that receives overbank flow?
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Flood hazard
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What does floodpain mean?
flat land area adjacent to a stream, composed of unconsolidated sedimentary deposits (alluvium) and subject to periodic inundation by the stream. Floodplains are produced by lateral movement of a stream and by overbank deposition; therefore they are absent where downcutting is dominant. Any erosional widening of one bank is approximately equalled by deposition on the opposite side of the channel in the form of bar development along the inside of meander bends. Thus, the simplest floodplain is made up of a strip of sinuous scrolls immediately adjacent to the stream.
What term describes a path followed by a stream?
The path that a stream follows is a channel.
What is a bend or curve in a stream channel?
stream channel
The steepness or slope of a stream channel in the direction of flow is the channel's?
stream channel
How does stream channel become deeper and wider?
Gravity pulls the stream channel downward.
A curve in a stream channel?
this is called a meandering stream.
A stream follows this?
Channel
What is a channel of a stream?
Gradient
What is a path that a stream follow?
The path that a stream follows is a channel.
What is the steepness of a stream channel?
Gradient
What is a streams bed load?
Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
What is the vertical drop of a stream channel over a certain distance is called what?
The vertical drop of a stream channel over distance is known as the Gradient.
