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What is a solution load?
A solution load is the matter transported by a river or stream. A solution load is dissolved in water. Hope this helps. x
What is a glacier load?
My understanding is that every glacier has a certain amount of sediment scraped from the interface of the surrounding bed rock and the moving ice. The total amount of this sediment is the Glacial load. Some significant land features, such as Cape Cod in Massachusetts, are remnants of the load after the ice receded.
When is a stream most likely to deposit the rock and soil that its carrying?
It will start to deposit it's load when the gradient starts to become shallower which will cause a decrease in energy and so a reduction in ability to transport sediment load.
The smaller the load a river has the more sediment it can carry?
The smaller the load a river has the more sediment it can carry is false. When the river has more energy, it is able to carry a larger load, therefore more sediment.
The stream load that includes gravel and large rocks is the?
Bed Load
What is a streams bed load?
Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
When the velocity of a stream suddenly decreases the sediment being transported undergoes an increase in?
Deposition, whereby the sediment load being transported is dropped.
What is the load that a stream of desitemn carries called?
sediment
What get carried away with sediment?
the stream load rock,soil,etc.the stream load rock,soil,etc.
What constitutes the highest percentage of the annual sediment load moved by a stream?
suspended load
Does bed load constitute the highest percentage of the annual sediment load moved by a stream?
no
How do stream transport sediments?
Stream transport sediment in three ways, dissolved load, (ions in solution being carried downstream), suspended load, (suspended sediment that floats freely downstream) and bed load, (sediment that rolls or scoots along the bottom of the river).
What is sediment that moves along the bed of a stream?
called a bed load its sediment that moves along the bed of a stream by rolling bouncing or sliding
What is the materials carried by a river known as?
load
What are the 3 different types of sediment loads that a stream can carry?
suspended load dissolved load bed load
What make up the suspended loads of most rivers and streams?
Clay, sand, silt.
Sediment that is moved along the bottom of a stream is known as?
bed load
