GEOG1710 1st Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Previous Lecture I Biomes II Tropical Rainforest III How deforestation affect carbon and climate Outline of Current Lecture I II III Streams and Fluvial Processes Drainage Basin Types Stream Discharge Current Lecture Streams and Fluvial Processes Streams give us water transport hydropower food and recreation Rivers lower landmasses back down Streams are geomorphic systems shape land surface o Through three fluvial processes 1 Erosion material is removed from the land 2 Transportation moving it away 3 Deposition placing it somewhere else Fluvial relating to a river Biomes Driving forces solar radiation and gravity Water in a stream comes from precipitation groundwater and ice Stream flows precipitation evapotranspiration Water goes into drainage basin or watershed o Area drained by a stream system o All land is in a watershed Drainage Basin Types o Exterior streams that flow into ocean o Interior some streams do not make it o Parent material has an effect These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Drainage patterns Dendritic homogenous parent material looks like a tree Radial Mountain Island flowing down sides in different patterns Trellis folding mountain valleys Stream discharge Volume of water flowing past a given point in a unit of time Measured in a meters cubed per second Floods discharge exceed capacity of channel dimension When discharge increases width depth and velocity increases
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