Brainstorm ways in which you could measure it. Discharge is the volume of water flowing down a river per unit time, measured in cubic feet per second or cubic meters per second.
Most streams have a steeper gradient near their headwaters and a gentler gradient near their mouth.
List the three ways in which streams can transport material. The suspended load is the sediment that makes stream water look brown. The larger grain sizes moved by a stream are transported in the bed load.