1. Flows across Earth’s Surface
Surface Water
Flows across Earth’s Surface

2. Surface Water: Runoff Amount of rain Length of time it falls
Slope of the land
Amount of plants

3. Rill Erosion
Small streams form

4. Gully Erosion

5. Sheet Erosion
Sheets of water move over the land

6. Stream Erosion

7. Mississippi Drainage Basin
Largest basin in the U.S.

8. Stream Development Erodes on Sides Flows swiftly Meanders form
Has waterfalls
Erodes on the bottom
Erodes on Sides
Meanders form
Broad floodplains
OLD Stream
Flows slowly through floodplain

9. Flooding - Rivers Overflow

10. Dams

11. Levees

12. Deltas & Alluvial Fans

13. Ground Water

14. Permeability

15. Aquifer

16. Water Table

17. Artesian Well

18. Springs & Geysers

19. Caves

20. Sinkhole

21. Rocky Shorelines

22. Sandy Shorelines

23. Beach Renourishment

24. LongshoreCurrents

25. Shore Zone Features