Rivers and streams are very important to the ecosystem and provide homes to many animals and plants. Rivers and streams can be found throughout the world and are essential to the way many mammals live their lives. According to Marrian-Webster, a river is a larger body of water that flows into another body of water (1). Streams are another type of water that flows but are smaller than a river (2).
Rivers and Streams can have several different sources of where their water comes originates but just like everything that water was once precipitation. When a form of precipitation falls to the earth’s surface, there are several things that can occur to that water molecule. The first situation is that the molecule evaporates back up into the earth’s atmosphere where it rejoins the water cycle. The other two situations that can occur are what trigger the formation of rivers and streams. Water can be absorbed into the ground and merges with the groundwater or run off the land surface into a river or stream. There are three different types of streams that funnel water to rivers ephemeral, intermittent, and perennial ( ). Ephemeral are streams that carry water only after a precipitation event; intermittent streams are downstream from ephemeral and are streams that transport water during wet seasons ( ). Ephemeral and intermittent do not consist of just runoff water from the surrounding areas but are also supplied with groundwater ( ). The last type of stream is called a perennial. Perennial streams are downstream from both the ephemeral and intermittent and consist of a stream that transports water year round ( ). The water that forms a river most likely started off as some type of precipitation that landed on the area that surrounds the...
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...d be affected by floodplains. The study of peak discharge of a given area can help humans better predict the chance of a flood. These predictions will help people determine how to protect communities from future floods and also decide whether or not an area is a safe place to develop new communities. However, sediments are deposited by the river during floods. Flooding gives a rich supply of sediment-born nutrients to the soil, so areas around rivers with wide floodplains are usually used for farming.
Rivers and streams are essential to all forms of life as they are part of the ginormous cycle of life. If one little river or stream disappears, everything is going feel the impact. Humans need to start protecting the natural resources that are out there. As more and more water melts from glaciers, rivers and streams will continue to see more and more water in them.
Case study: the flooding that occurred in Minden Hills in the spring of 2013, flooded the downtown core. The picturesque cottage town has the Gull River flowing through it. The river overflowed in April because of many reasons: a couple of days of rain, the third largest amount in over a century, but it also happened because the frost in the ground stopped the water from going into the Earth, the lakes and rivers being full from the spring thaw, and the rapid
To some this story might seem like a tragedy, but to Christians this is a beautiful story. Although young Harry dies at the end, he is accepted into the kingdom of God, which is far superior to anything on Earth. A non-religious family raises him and the first taste of Christianity he gets makes him want to pursue God. In Flannery O’Conner’s short story, The River, the allure of Gods grace and the repelling of sinful ways are shown heavily through Harry.
Admittedly, 2/3 of the world’s population living with water shortages is a scary enough statistic to send a shiver up the spine. Barlow doesn’t stop there, however; she goes on to say that only 2% of the U.S. rivers and wetlands remain untouched. What does that mean for the creatures that live there? Covered that too, “37% of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, 40% of amphibians are imperiled and 67% of freshwater mussels are extinct or vulnerable to extinction”.... ...
Fly fishing is not what this story is all about, although it might seem so at first. Neither is it about religion, even though the father’s first line is: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." Yes, these two things are themes that run through the story and add to its power. But there is so much more. It depicts a place of beauty, history, myth, and mystery, it is a triangle of earth in Montana where the writer grew up. And it captures a space of time in the not-so-distant past with a sensitivity that is both witty and poetic. Robert Redford loved this story and turned it into a handsome movie. Read it yourself or watch the movie, and you will learn something about fly fishing, but you wil...
Rivers start in mountains, then they trickle methodically down its side as a creek, and when many of these meet a river is formed. These rivers then fill up the ocean, which then evaporates and turns into rain which starts the process over. This is the water cycle. But the water cycle is very similar to human life. One starts as an ignorant, uneducated being, but then through much hardship and austerity we gain knowledge as a river. Finally we pass this knowledge on to our offspring, and the cycle begins anew. This is the life cycle which is beautifully illustrated in Herman Hess’s Siddhartha, where revelation awaits in the flow of time.
In today’s civil society, we are taught to show compassion and tolerance towards one other, yet the media portrays society in a different perspective, as being intolerant. In the book The Other Side of the River, writer Alex Kotlowitz reflects on the story of a young black male whose lifeless body was found in the St. Joseph river of Michigan. In this story, Kotlowitz reflects on two communities that are opposite from the other in regards to ethnic background and financial well-being, yet both appear to share the same lack of tolerance towards the other. There is a paragraph were Kotlowitz writes,
When it floods sediments can affect the land by losing nutrients in the soil and it can also affect the clarity of
The Mississippi River is one of the world 's extraordinary rivers. It is the longest in the United States, more than twenty-three hundred miles in length, as it structures the outskirts of ten states, just about bisecting the mainland (Currie,2003, 8). This waterway has a long history also, and it has touched the lives of numerous individuals. The Mississippi is said to start at Lake Itasca in Minnesota. In 1832, pilgrim Henry Schoolcraft named this lake, not after any neighborhood Indian name, but rather from the Latin words for "genuine head" which are veritas caput abbreviated to "Itasca" (Currie, 2003, 4). In any case, much sooner than its source was named it was a navigational waterway. The Indians who initially lived on the banks of the stream were known as the Mississippians. From 800 to 1500, these people groups utilized the waterway for exchange. They dug out
There are numerous stages that take place simultaneously in the hydrologic cycle and this includes evaporation. This is when the water alters from a liquid state into a gas. The damp air from the water rises into the atmosphere and when it cools, the vapor condenses and shapes into clouds. But those billows are not the only form the vapors make; it can also materialize as dew, fog and mist, which blanket the Earth, characteristically on a rainy or humid day. Evaporation takes place when water changes from a liquid state into a gaseous state, and ascents out of the pores of the earth and into the atmosphere as a vapor (“How”). While evaporation is taking place, condensation is also occurring. When the temperature in the air plunges, the clouds become heavy and as a result they relieve themselves of the extra weight, which is called precipitation. This produces rain, hail, snow and sleet, conditioned upon the temperate. As the precipitation falls, it enters the surface of the ground and percolates into the soil, which is called infiltration. The more porous the land is, the more the infiltration can take place. However, the ground cannot hold all of that water and floods. The excess rainfall, which is also called runoff that has not been absorbed makes its way into bodies of water, such as small ponds, rivers, lakes and parts of the ocean (“Summary”).
The usage/control of waterways helped civilizations sprout in the past and in the present. Document 1 shows many examples of how control/usage of waterways helped sprout civilizations in the present and in the past. One example that is showed in document 1 is the Tigris and Euphrates River which helped civilizations sprout by providing hydraulic power and fresh water. Another example in document 1 is the Mekong River which helped civilizations sprout by the river provided irrigation to the crops. The next example from document 1 is the Yangtze River which helped civilizations sprout by it provided hydraulic power. Another example form document 1 is the Indus River which helped civilizations sprout by the river provides irrigation for the crops. The control/usage of the waterways give the essential’s for a civilization to start. In addition, the control/ usage of the waterways also made trade a lot easier.
Approximately 5500 years ago four of the worlds' most prestigious ancient river civilizations had emerged. Our world has been left in astonishment and awe wondering how these civilizations were developed. Egypt and Mesopotamia were the first ancient river civilizations to create cities and their own ways of living. Society, geography, and religion played an enormous role in the development of the ancient cities. Although there is evidence of early Sumerian contact with the Egyptians, Egypt's civilization was largely self-generated and its history and cultural patterns differed from Mesopotamia.
If the gradient is steep (like the example on the right) then this can indicate that the amount of rainfall becoming overland flow is very high, the result of this is that all the water reaches the river very quickly and all in a short period of time, this gives the immediate steep ascending limb on the hydrograph. Reasons for large amounts of rainfall becoming overland flow can be little vegetation and maybe impermeable rock below the surface. Being impermeable rock, the water cannot infiltrate through this and become ground water, instead it flows over the ground to the river. Urban development and agricultural practices contribute to overland flow.
The fresh water is very important for all humans, animals, and all living organisms. After the air, water is the most essential component on the earth to sustain life. The main sources of water on the earth are rivers, lakes, underground water, springs, glaciers etc. The total amount of water required for drinking depends on the age of the humans, environmental conditions (eg. summer, winter), availability and the quality of water etc. All living things require water for the survival. Water is used for several activities like drinking, cooking, washing cloths and cleaning floors , gardening and industrial purposes. Water is not only used for the drinking purpose but it is also used for growing vegetation
Humans often take the water cycle for granted and assume that fresh water will always be available for drinking, cooking, farming, etc. Unfortunately, the ways in which society uses water is contributing to the reduction in fresh water available for human use. First of all, the use of hydroelectric power, though a clean source of energy, is negatively affecting the ecosystems in which the plant is stationed. The waterway must be dammed in order to maximize the potential energy of the water, but this often affects the function of the waterway upstream and downstream. For example, the build-up of water above the dam may create a lake where silt can build up while a lack of water below the dam eliminates habitats. Moreover, plants and aquatic animals that previously inhabited the waterway “may find themselves with too much or too little water, and migrating fish cannot get through the dams” (Humans and the water cycle). Not only does hydroelectricity disrupt the water cycle, but irrigation does as well. “Irrigation is the artificial watering of land that does not get enough water through rainfall” (Humans and the water cycle). Most countries that use irrigation have dry land or they require more water to grow more plants for their increasing population. The issue with irrigation is that it removes relatively clean water from its natural source and essentially pollutes it. The fertilizer in
The Nile is the longest river in the world which is located in Africa. It spans itself from Lake Victoria in east central Africa to Egypt. It flows generally north through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea, for an approximate distance of 5,584 km From its remotest headstream, the Luvironza River in Burundi, the river is 6,695 km long. The river basin has an area of about 3,350,000 sq km. Its average discharge is 3.1 million litres per second. The lower course of the river in Egypt has become centrally important to tourism, linking as it does to all the major sites of Ancient Egypt.