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Surface Water
Flows across Earth’s Surface
Surface Water: Runoff
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Amount of rain
Length of time it falls
Slope of the land
Amount of plants
Rill Erosion
Small streams form
Gully Erosion
Sheet Erosion
• Sheets of water move over the land
Stream Erosion
Mississippi Drainage Basin
• Largest basin in the U.S.
Stream Development
• Flows swiftly
• Has waterfalls
• Erodes on the
bottom
OLD Stream
• Flows slowly
through floodplain
• Erodes on Sides
• Meanders form
• Broad floodplains
Flooding - Rivers Overflow
Dams
Levees
Deltas & Alluvial Fans
Ground Water
Permeability
Aquifer
Water Table
Artesian Well
Springs & Geysers
Caves
Sinkhole
Rocky Shorelines
Sandy Shorelines
Beach Renourishment
LongshoreCurrents
Shore Zone Features
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