the water cycle
The transfer of water back to the sea over the ground surface
What is surface water?
Is where a river begins
What is the source?
The stream flow rate of the Rhine
What is variable?
is the breakup and decay of rocks on the earth's surface.
What is weathering?
What is Young river, middle aged river and old river?
The transfer of water through the ground back to the sea
What is ground water?
is a stream or small river flowing into a main river
What is a tributary?
The stream flow rate varies according to ....
What is seasons?
Is the wearing away of land and movement of material by the action of water, ice, and wind.
What is weathering?
This river is often narrow, straight and fast flowing.
What is a young river?
The transfer and change of water from plants into water vapor in the air .
What is transpiration?
is where the rivers flow
What is a channel?
A period of high water levels which is due to ....
What is melting snow in spring and heavy rainfall?
is the disintegration of rocks by such actions as temperature changes.
What is Physical weathering?
The land around a river that is grassy, and swampy it is called....
What is a floodplain?
Some water sinks into the rocks underground.
What is percolation?
A confluence is
Where 2 or more rivers meet to join a single channel.
a period of low water levels corresponding to....
What is the hottest weather?
Erosion shapes and changes the land. They so this is in three steps.
What is detachment, transport and deposition?
At a meander the velocity of the river is fastest here.
What is the outside curve?
water flows through the rocks underground
What is groundwater flow?
The point at which two streams or rivers join
What is the Confluence
The longest river in Africa and in the world
River Nile
Only Erosion at the ___ course of a river
Upper course
The meanders can become so curvy that they merge. Eventually it results in a straight portion of the river with a separate, curved-shaped ......
What is an Oxbow lake?