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Moxostoma carinatum. Small streams, rivers with moderate current over gravel bottom. Black redhorse. Moxostoma duquesnei. Lakes, river pools with sand or rock bottom. Golden redhorse. Moxostoma erythrurum. Clear pools of large rivers, moderate flowing small streams with sandy or gravel bottom. Shorthead redhorse.
Semotilus atromaculatus, known as the creek chub or the common creek chub, is a small minnow, a freshwater fish found in the eastern US and Canada. Differing in size and color depending on origin of development, the creek chub can usually be defined by a dark brown body with a black lateral line spanning horizontally across the body.
The point at which the stream discharges, possibly via an estuary or delta, into a static body of water such as a lake or ocean. A segment where the water is deeper and slower moving. A turbulent, fast-flowing stretch of a stream or river. A segment where the flow is shallower and more turbulent.
The brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus Salvelinus of the salmon family Salmonidae native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada. [3][4] Two ecological forms of brook trout have been recognized by the US Forest Service. [3] One ecological form is short-lived potamodromous ...
a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature. Lake. a body of water, usually freshwater, of relatively large size contained on a body of land. Lick. a small watercourse or an ephemeral stream.
Bayou. In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou (/ ˈbaɪ.uː, ˈbaɪ.oʊ /) [1] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek. They typically contain brackish water highly conducive to fish life ...
A river is a natural flow of freshwater that flows on or through land towards another body of water downhill. [1] This flow can be into a lake, an ocean, or another river. [1] A stream refers to water that flows in a natural channel, a geographic feature that can contain flowing water. [2]
Drainage system (geomorphology) Dendritic drainage: the Yarlung Tsangpo River, Tibet, seen from space: snow cover has melted in the valley system. In geomorphology, drainage systems, also known as river systems, are the patterns formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. They are governed by the topography of land ...