Christopher Herlihy 11/19/2012 Earth Science Lab Professor Senft Rivers and Flooding Prelab Questions 1.

Discharge The amount of water that flows through a river bed 2. Gage Height (stage) The water surface elevation referred to an arbitrary or predetermined gage datum. 3. Recurrence Interval The average time interval between occurrences of a hydrologic event, such as a flood, of a given or greater magnitude. 4.1% Chance 5. 2% Chance 6. Discharge of the Hudson river 21,400 ft/s' (606 m/s') Amazon River 7,381,000 ft/s' (209,000 m/s') No the discharge of a flood could never reach the same or more discharge of the amazon river. 7. Hydrograph -- is a graph showing the rate of flow (discharge) versus time past a specific point in a river, or other channel or conduit carrying flow.