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What are "Headwaters"?
The beginning of the river.
What is an Estuary?
The area where a river meets the sea or ocean, where fresh water from the river meets salt water from the sea.
What is a Waterfall?
A sudden drop in a river as it flows over a rock cliff.
What is Erosion?
Sediment is carried away.
What is a Bay
An inlet of the sea or other body of water, usually smaller than a gulf but of the same general character; part of a body of water that extends into land.
What is a channel?
The path a river flows.
What is a River Bed?
Is the bottom of the river (or other body of water).
What is a River Bank?
The sides of a river or stream between which the water normally flows.
What is a Watershed?
An area of land within a river basin that drains the land.
What is a strait
A narrow channel that connects two larger bodies of water
What are Levees?
Man made barrier usually of sediment placed along river banks.
What is a River Mouth?
The end of a river, where it empties into a large body of water.
What is a Stream?
Flowing water, such as a brook, river, or even an ocean current.
What is a River Basin?
A portion of the land drained by a river and its tributaries. It encompasses streams, creeks and watersheds.
What is a plateau
Elevated, level or nearly level portion of Earth’s surface, larger in summit area than a mountain and bounded on at least one side by steep slopes.
What is an Alluvial Fan?
A fan shape deposit formed by sediment at the mouth of a ravine or foot of a mountain.
What is a Gorge?
a narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.
What is a Meander?
A curve that develops in a path of a river when the river flows over relatively flat land.
What is a Flood Plain?
An area along the river that floods during heavy rains.
What is an island
A body of land smaller than a continent; surrounded by water
What is a Drainage Pattern?
The path of a stream which is influenced by topography and geological structures.
What is an Oxbow Lake?
Bow-shaped lake formed in a former channel of a river.
What is a Delta?
Landforms at the mouth of the river.
What is Mountain Range?
A row of connected mountains
What is river source
The place a river begins, usually in the highland.