Chapter 6 Vocab

5. when the discharge of a stream exceeds its carrying capacity of its channel and water overflows its banks
6. accumulation of sediment formed where a stream enter a lake or an ocean
9. total amount of sediment a stream is able to transport
10. naturally formed underground chamber or series of chambers most commonly made by solution activity in limestone
11. of saturation:The zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water
13. form of limestone that is deposited by hot springs or as a cave deposit
15. colorless, transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms
17. state or quality of a material or membrane that causes it to allow liquids or gases to pass through it
18. Levee:An elevated landform that parallels a stream and acts to confine its waters, except during a flood
19. basin:The area drained by a river and all its tributaries
21. body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater

1. quality of being porous, or full of tiny holes
2. depression produced in a region where soluble rock has been removed by groundwater
3. deposit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta, typically producing fertile soil
4. held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
7. well:A well in which the water naturally rises above the level of the water table
8. hot spring in which water intermittently boils, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air
12. load:Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel
14. flow of groundwater that emerges naturally at the ground surface
16. imaginary line that separates the drainage of two streams
20. opening bored into the zone of saturation