vocabulary
The opposite direction to the way water in a river flows
What is upstream?
A river that flows through middle and south Africa
What is the Congo?
In this part of the river it is normally fast flowing, narrow channel, steep sides and valleys.
What is the upper course?
The speed of the water on the outside of a curve on a meander?
what is fast?
A dam in Egypt
What is the Aswan dam?
The end of a river where it flows into the sea
What is the mouth?
A river that flows through South America
What is the Amazon?
In this part of the river it is slower flowing, deep, wide channel, less steep sides and a wider valley and you can normally find floodplains
What is the lower course?
This is where deposition occurs
What is the inside of the meander?
A dam in Tasmania
What is the Gordon dam?
A smaller river or stream that joins a big river
What is a tributary
A river that flows through Australia
What is the Murray Darling?
In this part of the river it is slower flowing, deep, wide channel, less steep sides and a wider valley and you can normally find meanders and confluence
What is the middle course?
Where erosion occurs on a straight part of a river
What is the center?
A dam in the USA
What is the Hoover Dam?
A wide muddy or sandy area where some rivers meet the se. The river slows down an drops all the sediment it was carrying
What is a delta?
80% of this river flows through India
What is the Ganges river?
where you can find the estuary.
What is the lower course?
When meanders become so curvy that they merge creating a section of the river with multiple paths.
What is an oxbow lake?
A dam in Quebec
What is the Daniel-Johnson dam?
Where a river reaches the ocean and the river and the ocean mix. These are normally wide and flat
What is an Estuary?
This river flows through central Russia to Southern Russia
What is the Volga river?
Where you can find rapids.
What is the upper course?
deposition occurs when the water flows at this speed.
A dam in Argentina
What is the Punta Negra Dam?