RiverWords
Rivers Continued
Where's Water
Ponds. Lakes.
Others
100
A loop or curve in the river
What is a meander?
100
Is the buildup of sediments deposited alongside the channel f a river to control flooding.
What is a levee?
100
The location of most of the Earth's saltwater.
What are the oceans?
100
When a lake or pond turns into a meadow.
What is eutrophication?
100
Needed for animals in fast flowing rivers.
What are hooks, suction cups and streamlined bodies?
200
Wide, flat area where the river can overflow its channel during heavy rains.
What is a floodplain?
200
Portion of river with wide flat floodplains and many bends where it deposits rock and soil.
What is an old river?
200
97%
What is the percentage of the Earth's saltwater?
200
can happen more quickly when fertilizers and detergents runoff into ponds and lakes.
What is eutrophication?
200
Dead animals that float to the bottom of a lake.
What do animals at the bottom of a lake eat?
300
When a large river empties into an even larger river.
What is a tributary?
300
Happens to sediments at places where the river current slows.
What is deposition?
300
This separates two neighboring watersheds.
What is a divide?
300
Shallow and small in depth and size.
What is a pond?
300
Area at the end of the river where it empties into the sea.
What is a mouth?
400
Fan shaped area of deposited sediments at the end of a river.
What is a delta
400
The part of a meander where erosion is most likely to occur.
What is the outside curve of a meander?
400
An area of land that flows into rivers, lakes, streams
What is a watershed?
400
Sunlight will not reach the bottom and temperature is not consistent.
What is a lake?
400
Source or beginning of a river.
What is Headwaters?
500
Source or beginning of a river
What are headwaters?
500
Precipitation which flows of land into lakes, streams, rivers.
What is surface runoff?
500
The location of most of the Earth's freshwater.
What is Frozen in icebergs and glaciers?
500
3 ways which lakes can be formed.
What are glaciers, craters, humans?
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