Understanding Your Environment: River Systems Activity 1 - High-Gradient Streams

Understanding Your Environment book

It's About Time/AGI

This investigation will help you to:

Characteristics of High-Gradient Streams
To learn more about the Big Thompson, Colorado flood, visit the following web sites:

Characteristics of High-Gradient Streams

Streams and Drainage Systems - Tulane University
Read an overview of many of the topics covered in this chapter, including high gradient streams.
Nehalem River Watershed Assessment: Channel Habitat Typing - Portland State University
Learn more about the effect different stream gradients can have on organisms in the stream.

To learn more about the Big Thompson, Colorado flood, visit the following web sites:

The Big Thompson Canyon Flash Flood - UCAR
The Big Thompson Canyon Flood - NOAA