Forms
Study of river processes that shape land forms. This is examined on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
What is Fluvial Geomorphology?
The material deposited by a river
What is alluvium?
Steep or gradual slopes that cause changes in a river's form.
What is alluvium made up of?
What is sand, silt, and gravel.
What is upstream?
The most common stream order in the world.
What is order 1.
The 4 driving factors to a river's form.
What are climate, geology, topography and vegetation.
What supplies water and sediment to a channel? Must provide all name options.
Name the two types of materials rivers can form channels in.
What are alluvium and bedrock
Wide, shallow channels where flow divides and rejoins around bars and islands. Large, low-lying and wide floodplains.
Rivers that flow year round
What are Perennial rivers?
Measured in volume per second.
What is discharge?
Low-lying ground adjacent to a river formed by sediments.
What is a floodplain?
What determines channel size?
What is discharge?
Flow divides in 2 or more channels, are cut into the floodplain and result in large islands.
What are anabranching channels?
Rivers that flow occasionally
What are Ephemeral rivers?
The depth of a river at a cross section.
What is stage?
What is 1.
Two level 2 catchments join to create this.
What is a level 3 catchment.