is there a difference in a brook & a creek? (or does it just depend where you live)?
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Brook - a small stream that crosses between two other bodies of water (thus "brooking" them). It is usually small and easily forded. Also the Scottish term for a creek.\n\nStream - The primary meaning of stream is a body of water, confined within a bed and banks and having a detectable current. Stream is the umbrella term used in the scientific community for all flowing natural waters.
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Well, it depends really on what part of the country you are in.  Some places go out in the morning and catch Shad.  They are the flat, wide and really shiny minnows.  The others are just minnows that they caught I am not sure of the technical names of them all.
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hills, mountains, creeks, streams or lakes
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Good answer mofu.   Local convention is the determining factor though - whoever grew up next to said watercourse will have a conventional way of talking about it, regardless of anyone's "definition".   In Scotland there are lots of rivers that the local Brazilian population regards as miniscule little streams.   In Brazil there are rivers that I would say are virtually the sea.
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I always thought that the water fell down the drain different directions in the world.  When I was watching Dr. Know the other night, he said that this myth was not true and it really doesn't matter where you are located in the world, it depends on how the drain is made.
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The winding nature of many river channels is called meandering, also referred to as sinuosity. The sinuosity of a river is not just the result of water taking the easiest path. There are many internal and external factors that determine the overall channel pattern. To some extent there is still debate within the science about what factors are most important.  There are mathematical formulas that can be used to compare different rivers, but they are not quite good enough to actually explain all the variables yet. \n\nIf you look at a map you will see that the sinuosity of a river has a predictable wavelength (length of a full turn) and amplitude (width of a meander across the river flood plain), so it is clearly not a random process. One useful formula that relates the bankfull discharge of a river to its meander wavelength is the following:\n\nLength of meander=L\nBankfull discharge (volume of the river)= Qb\n\nL=54.3 (square root of Qb)\n\nThe factors that affect the size of meanders that are external to the river are things like the type and density of vegetation along the river bank, the type of material in the river bed and bank, the overall volume and variability of the river volume, and the overall gradient of the river. The higher the gradient the less likely a river will meander. Rivers that meander widely are typically flowing across a river-deposited flood plain of sand, silt and clay materials, but because these materials are not always deposited evenly the inconsistency will affect the river channel migration. Along many meandering rivers there are forests growing, and as trees fall into the rivers they can have major effects on the current flow.  \n\nThe internal factors probably have much more to do with the strong tendency of rivers to meander (at least that is my opinion) and create the regularity of meanders. Small oscillations within flowing water creates alternating bed profiles along the length of most rivers. These alternating bed profiles correspond to higher and lower gradients resulting in faster and slower speeds of flow.  These two bed profiles are known as riffles and pools. The riffles are typically spaced about 5-7 times the width of the river apart, along the length of the river and usually have bottom sediments of the largest size found in the river (more gravel, cobbles, etc). Turbulence in the river created by these variations in the bottom of the river creates cyclone-like spirals of water that will both erode the bottoms of pools and when they diverge they will build bars and riffles in the middle of the channel. \n\nThis internal turbulence also causes bank erosion, and once it begins it is self-perpetuating. As the meander begins to form, the water moving along the outside of the meander actually piles up, causing more bank erosion, and the higher speed of the water along the outside of the meander also allows the water to erode and carry more material. Meanwhile, the inside of the meander is the slowest moving water and will deposit material, building a sand bar, also called a point bar.\n\nThe meanders eventually reach a limit of size (amplitude) either when they encounter the edge of the flood plain and bedrock, or when they get so wide they begin to intersect each other. As this happens the river will cut them off forming an oxbow. Other times at flood stage a river will scour away the point bars and abandon its own meanders until flow returns to normal and the process of building meanders starts anew. \n\nHere is a good resource with some illustrations of the process:\nhttp://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6664/6664.ch04.html
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There is no difference based on geographic location but there are HUGE differences based on race.  Whites, blacks, hispanics and asians differ markedly on this issue.  However, someone of the same race from a different part of the country is very similar on this.
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Depends on which state you live
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Never heard of it, but there are a LOT of lakes I have not been on.  (YET)\n\nBTW, I am on the stateline\n\nI would suspect that it doesn't matter.
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A river is the main body of water, the tributaries are smaller streams etc that branch off it or into it...\n\nLike a tree... the trunk is the river, the branches are tributaries..
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creeks can be up to 99 miles long.... at 100 miles it is a river
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Cnatthink of one but try some geography sites\n\nold rivers have lots of ox bows and meanders from sidecutting \n\nnewer rivers are generally straighter and dont have as large floodplain and also maybe more braided
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Varies from state to state.(And countries too) Check with local Fish & Game.
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See the below link for a concise discussion of the difference.  But it's not specific to Missouri.
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Find a relatively large body of water. A creek, river or lake. Trout should be there.
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depends where you are located
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I think is is different in each state. Good Luck!