| [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] streme, from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] strēam; akin to Old High German stroum stream, [[Greek]] rhein to [[flow]] | | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] streme, from [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] strēam; akin to Old High German stroum stream, [[Greek]] rhein to [[flow]] |
| A '''stream''' is a [[body]] of [[water]] with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, kill, lick, rill, river syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, or run. In some countries or [[communities]] a stream may be defined by its size. In the United States a stream is [[classified]] as a watercourse less than 60 feet (18 metres) wide. | | A '''stream''' is a [[body]] of [[water]] with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, kill, lick, rill, river syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, or run. In some countries or [[communities]] a stream may be defined by its size. In the United States a stream is [[classified]] as a watercourse less than 60 feet (18 metres) wide. |
− | Streams are important as conduits in the [[water]] [[cycle]], instruments in groundwater recharge, and they serve as corridors for fish and wildlife [[migration]]. The [[biological]] [[habitat]] in the [[immediate]] vicinity of a stream is called a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone riparian zone]. Given the [[status]] of the ongoing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction Holocene extinction], streams play an important corridor role in [[connecting]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_fragmentation fragmented habitats] and thus in conserving [[biodiversity]]. The [[study]] of streams and waterways in general is known as surface [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrology hydrology] and is a core [[element]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_geography environmental geography].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream] | + | Streams are important as conduits in the [[water]] [[cycle]], instruments in groundwater recharge, and they serve as corridors for fish and wildlife [[migration]]. The [[biological]] [[habitat]] in the [[immediate]] vicinity of a stream is called a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian_zone riparian zone]. Given the [[status]] of the ongoing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction Holocene extinction], streams play an important corridor role in [[connecting]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_fragmentation fragmented habitats] and thus in conserving [[biodiversity]]. The [[study]] of streams and waterways in general is known as surface [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrology hydrology] and is a core [[element]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_geography environmental geography].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream] |