2.2

• • Stream Characteristics - characteristics used to describe a stream or river
• stream characteristics

  1. volume and rate of flow
  2. shape of bed
  3. slope
• source - where the water comes from, where the river begins
• streams - smaller rivers that flow in and out of rivers
• meanders - a winding and slow moving river
• flood plain - flat area around a river
• mouth - where the river enters a lake or sea, or where it meets another river
• delta - triangle shaped landform caused by the deposition of sediments
• • Erosion: the wearing away and transporting of rock fragments and soil
• • Sediments: eroded rock fragments and soil carried by wind or water
• • Deposition: is the laying down or depositing of sediments
• • sediment load - the amount of water-borne materials, such as soil, rocks and organic matter that it carries
• • Water-borne - means carried by water
• the slower the river flows, the less sediment it carries
• hot springs

  • A natural spring originating deep underground 
  • Brings dissolved sediment up from within the Earth (at a
• chemical weathering - the erosion of rock due to chemicals in water
• • Watershed - area of land that drains into one main lake or river
• • Continental Divide - the highest point of land on a continent 
  • Rivers will flow into different oceans depending on which side of the divide they start
• our continental divide - rocky mountains
• bow river watershed

  1. bow glacier
  2. bow lake
  3. bow river
  4. south Saskatchewan river
  5. Saskatchewan river
  6. lake Winnipeg
  7. nelson river
  8. Hudson's bay
  9. arctic ocean