Rushing Rivers
The area of land alongside a river.
What is a riverbank?
The edge of the land near the sea.
What is a coast?
A bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains, formed by a glacier.
What is a cirque?
A large body of salt water that surrounds a continent.
What is an ocean?
This makes the ocean depths difficult to explore.
What is underwater pressure?
A winding curve or bend of a river.
What is a meander?
An elevated region with a central valley on an ocean floor at the boundary between two diverging tectonic plates where new crust forms from upwelling magma.
What is an oceanic ridge?
Water released by the melting of snow or ice, often pooled at the base of a glacier.
A cascade of water on a river.
What is a waterfall?
The ocean zone where sunlight shines through, photosynthesis occurs, and most animals are found.
What is the Sunlight Zone?
A stream or river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
A long, narrow steep-sided depression in the earth's oceanic crust, usually lying above a subduction zone?
What is an oceanic trench?
Accumulations of dirt and rocks that have fallen onto the glacier surface or have been pushed along by the glacier as it moves.
What is a moraine?
A small body of still water.
What is a pond?
This zone of the ocean is completely dark; animals adapt by making their own light and have big mouths.
What is the Abyss?
A triangular tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river, typically where it diverges into several outlets.
What is a delta?
A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inward.
What is a bay?
A deep crack, or fracture, found in an ice sheet or glacier, caused by extensive stress within the ice.
What is a crevasse?
A curved lake formed at a former curve where the main stream of the river has cut across the narrow end and no longer flows around the loop of the bend.
What is an oxbow lake?
This ocean zone goes to a depth of 4,000 meters, octopus hang out here.
What is the Midnight Zone?
The mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the river.
What is an estuary?
A deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land.
What is gulf?
The lowest end of a glacier.
What is a glacier snout?
Low-lying land that is flooded in wet seasons or high tide and always remains waterlogged.
What is a marsh?
With a depth of up to 1,000 meters, whales enjoy this part of the ocean.
What is the Twilight Zone?