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| most prominent features of a narrow valley |
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| streams that flow on floodplains move in sweeping bends |
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| most commonly occuring drainage pattern |
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| land that contributes to the water of a stream |
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| imaginary line seperating two streams |
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| rectangle drainage pattern |
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| develops when the bedrock is crisscrossed by a series of joints or faults and is characterized by many right angle bends |
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| of a stream measures the maximum size of particles it is capable of transporting and is determined by the streams valocity |
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| the maximum load that a stream can carry and is directly related to its discharge(volume) |
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| three ways streams transport |
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1.suspended load
2.solution (dissolve)
3.bed (scooting or rolling) load |
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| most streams (but not all) carrry the largest part of their load |
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| the lowest point to which a stream can erode its channel |
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