Stream/shoreling. eerosion vocab

delta

fan shaped deposit at the mouth of a river

meander

curves in a streams path

floodplain

flat area that floods around a river

levee

stream bankcs that confine a river

bed load

transportation, rolling along the bottom

suspension

fine grain sediments are carried within the flow of a stream

solution

a process of chemical weathering and a form of transportations where materials are dissoleved in water

runoff

the portion of water that doesn’t soak into the ground

point bar

cresent shaped deposit of sediment

cut bank

steep nearly vertical bank formed along the outer edge of a meander

discharge

volume of water passing through a certain point in a given time (area x velocity)

base level

the level of the body of water in which a stream flows

drainage basin/watershed

land area that collects water form a stream/lake

turbulent flow

chaotic, irregular type of flow in wate r

laminar flow

water moves in smooth, parallel layers

headwaters

source, or the beginning of a river or stream

mouth

endpoint of a stream or river where it flows into a bigger body of water

tributaries

smaller streams that feed into bigger streams

oxbow lake

cresent or u shaped body of water

swash

waves moving onshore carries sediement up the beach at an angle (waves hit at an angle)

backwash

waves moving offshore moves sediments down beach (only gravity acting on it)

headland

high, steep, rock that juts out from the coastline into a larger body of water

rip current

current that flows away from the ocean

longshore current

movement of water in one direction due to swah and backwash causes a current

undertow

strong current that moves away from the shore along the seabed