- beach
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shoreline deposit of sand or rock
- bed load
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sediments rolling along a stream bed or bottom
- Condensation
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The change from a gas to a liquid
- delta
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deposit of sediment piled up in the mouth of a river
- deposition
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The dropping of sediment by water, wind, ice
- erosion
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The movement of sediment by water, wind, gravity, or ice
- Evaporation
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The change of a liquid to a gas
- kinetic energy
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Energy something has due to its motion; proportional to its speed.
- longshore current
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current which moves beach sand parallel to the shore in one direction
- meander
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curve in a river
- mouth
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The low end of a stream
- ox-bow lake
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lake formed when a meander is cut off from its original river
- river system.
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A river and all of its tributaries (and their tributaries)
- runoff
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water temporarily running across Earth's surface after a rain
- sediments
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pieces of rock material such as cobbles, pebbles, sand, silt, and clay; the product of weathering
- solution load
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sediment dissolved in water
- source
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The beginning of a stream, as you would see on a map AND/OR a place from which a stream gets its water
- suspended load
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sediment floating throughout the water in a stream
- tributaries
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smaller streams which join and add to a larger stream
- watershed
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area of land surrounding a river and all its tributaries; the land from which a river system gets its water
- weathering
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the breakdown of rock material into sediments, or smaller pieces