floodplain
A network of rills, gullies, streams, and rivers in an area.
The network of rills, gullies, streams, and rivers in an area is often referred to as a watershed or river basin. This system of interconnected waterways ultimately drains into a common body of water, such as a lake or ocean.
Feeder creeks, or tributaries.
Yes, except that Australia has rivers and creeks, rather than rivers and streams. Small water-flows are not generally referred to as streams in Australia.Despite Australia having the reputation of being the driest inhabited continent, there are many, many rivers and creeks in Australia, but they are not all permanently-flowing. There is a vast network of rivers and river systems through the eastern states, and smaller networks in the northwest and southwest of the continent.
the scientific term is a tributary, but they're normally known as streams or creeks
Streams are merely tributaries of rivers. A river is the wider channel into which smaller creeks, streams and rivers flow. (Streams do not flow out of rivers.) Streams carry water from higher sources, emptying into the river. As more streams empty into a river, it tends to become broader, simply because of the greater volume of water it is carrying.
There is the:Arkansas River,Colorado River,Florida River,Illinois River,Michigan River,Idaho Creek,Indiana Creek,Maryland Creek,Minnesota Creek,Montana Creek,Virginia Creek,Missouri Creek, (six different creeks),New York Creek, (two different creeks),Ohio Creek, (two different creeks),Pennsylvania Creek, (two different creeks),Tennesee Creek, (two different creeks), andTexas Creek, (of which there are seven different creeks).
A river is a flowing body of water. The distinction between creeks, streams, and rivers is usually arbitrary, with rivers being the larger of the three.
Rills are small channels formed by flowing water on a slope, gullies are larger and deeper channels typically caused by erosion, and streams are larger bodies of moving water that can support aquatic life and flow towards a larger body of water like a river or ocean.
No less then 15 major river systems combine to make up the Colorado River plus hundreds of small streams and creeks.
Alaska is a U.S. state which has more than 12,000 rivers, and thousands more streams and creeks. According to United States Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, Alaska has about 9,728 officially-named rivers, creeks, and streams. The most notiable of these is most likely the The Copper River or Ahtna River (Ahtna Athabascan 'Atna) is a 300-mile (480 km)river in south-central Alaska.
Sacramento River Basin. Actually I live high above the basin in the Sierra Mtn. foothills. But all the streams and creeks near-by flow down into that basin.