Exam 16: Fluvial Processes

What is stream capture and might it about to happen to the stream nearest your home?

A(n) ________ stream flows over a landscape that has been lifted so slowly so that the stream is able to maintain its course (even through mountains).

The cycle of erosion is also know as ________.

The most numerous stream type on the landscape is the ________.

Usually 4th order streams are more numerous than 1st order streams.

The Niger River in Africa has built the largest delta in the world.

Explain what circumstances make streamflow so unsystematic and irregular.

Rivers downcutting into a land surface, in the absence of other forces, usually tend to erode a ________-shaped form.

Water is the leading external shaper of landforms because of its ubiquity over the planet.

The point of confluence of a tributary with a higher order stream is a(n) ________.

Any stream may lengthen its valley by ________ and delta formation.

Davis's theory is usually referred to as the ________.

A remnant of a previous valley floor is called a stream terrace.

When a first-order stream joins a second-order stream, the result is always ________.

Equilibrium theory has serious shortcomings in deserts and areas which are ________.

The lower course of a stream is dominated by landforms created by erosion.

An imaginary surface extending beneath the continents which limits how deep streams may cut is ________.

First order streams are the ________ of all streams.

A stream's ________ is (are) chemically altered and transported.

Solution and hydrolysis combine to create ________ in streams.