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Key Terms of Water Systems

TermDefinition
Flood Plain A Broad flat valley through which a river flows.
Ox Bow Lake The crescent shaped cutoff body of water that remains after a river carves a new channel.
Erosion The process by which fragments of soil and rock are broken off from the ground surface and carried away.
Cut Bank Nearly vertical cliff produced by erosion.
Deposition The process by which soil and fragments of rock are deposited in a new location.
Downriver Where the slope of the land is less steep.
River System when ponds and streams go into a direction that ends up in a river.
Tributary A smaller stream or river that feeds into a main river.
Meander A looping curve formed in a river as it winds through its flood plain.
Mouth The point where a river flows into another body of water.
Headwaters The many small streams that come together at the source of a river.
Source The Beginning of a river.
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