Chapter 5: Running Water and Groundwater

Alluvial Fans

Drainage Basin

Radial Pattern

Alluvium

Drawdown

Rectangular Pattern

Aquifers

Erosion

Runoff

Aquitards

Evapotranspiration

Saltation

Artesian Well

Flood

Settling velocity

Artificial Levees

Flood Control Dams

Sinkholes

Backswamp

Floodplain

Sorting

Bar

Geysers

Spring

Base level

Gradient

Stalactite

Bed load

Groundwater

Stalagmite

Braided Stream

Hot springs

Stream Valley

Capacity

Hydrologic Cycle

Suspended Load

Cavern

Incised Meander

Transpiration

Competence

Infiltration

Trellis Pattern

Cone of Depression

Infiltration Capacity

Turbulent Flow

Cut bank

Karst topography

Unsaturated zone

Cutoff

Laminar Flow

Water Table

Delta

Meander

Wells

Dendritic Pattern

Natural Levee

Yazoo Tributary

Discharge

Oxbow lake

Zone of Aeration

Dissolved load

Permeability

Zone of Saturation

Distributary

Point bar

 

Divide

Porosity

Longitudinal profile