Hydrology Vocabulary

3. Spring/a spring of naturally hot water, typically heated by subterranean volcanic activity.
10. Well/ a well in which water is under pressure; especially : one in which the water flows to the surface naturally.
11. branch of a river that does not return to the main stream after leaving it
13. embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.
15. Pattern/the drainage pattern of streams that make many right-angle bends
16. spring is any natural situation where water flows from an aquifer to the earth's surface
17. the quality of being porous, or full of tiny holes.
18. deposited by precipitation from dripping water, such as that which forms stalactites and stalagmites
19. Tributaries/stream that runs parallel to, and within the floodplain of a larger river for considerable distance, before eventually joining it.
20. tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water.
23. Pattern/one that appears to radiate from a point, like the spokes from the hub of a wheel.
24. system/ pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin.
26. Competence/a measure of the maximum size of the particles that the stream can transport.
27. level/lowest point in a river or stream to which it can flow

1. hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage
2. body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
4. mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water
5. basin/an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries
6. Capacity/total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport
7. of saturation/the area in an aquifer, below the water table, in which relatively all pores and fractures are saturated with water.
8. hot spring in which water intermittently boils, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air.
9. state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it.
11. pattern/ most common where rocks or sediments are flat-lying and preferential zones of structural weakness are minimal.
12. area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.
14. Pattern/A pattern featuring a supporting structure of interwoven pieces of wood or metal sometimes flowers
21. the shallowest aquifer at a given location is unconfined, meaning it does not have a confining layer
22. table/the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
25. Load/Gravel and sand that are dragged to the bottom of the river that form a bed of finer sand and mud.