Page 263the total area drained by a stream and its tributaries is called the hydrologic cycle. tributary area. divide. drainage basin. stream erosion and deposition are controlled primarily by a river’s velocity. discharge. gradient. channel shape. channel roughness. hydraulic action, solution, and abrasion are all examples of stream erosion. transportation. deposition. cobbles are more likely to be transported in a stream’s bed load. suspended load. dissolved load. all of the preceding. a river’s velocity is on the outside of a meander curve compared to the inside. higher equal lower sandbars deposited on the inside of meander curves are called dunes. point bars. cutbanks. none of the preceding. which is not a drainage pattern? dendritic radial rectangular trellis none of the preceding the broad strip of land built up by sedimentation on either side of a stream channel is a flood plain. a delta. an alluvial fan. a meander. the average time between floods of a given size is the discharge. the gradient. the recurrence interval. the magnitude. a platform of sediment formed where a stream flows into standing water is an alluvial fan. a delta. a meander. a flood plain.