parts of a river
Q: The part of the river that flows into a larger body of water
A: What is the mouth of a river?
Q: The bottom of a river
A: What is a river bed?
Q: They affect the land, climate, ocean and coastal ecosystems
A: What do ocean currents affect?
Q: One type of these begins in the tropics and carries warm water to cooler regions, the other begins in polar regions and brings cool water toward the tropics.
A: What are warm and cool currents?
Q: This is where land and water meet each other/mix.
A: What is a coastline?
Q: A stream or river that flows into a larger one.
A: What is a tributary?
Q: Rivers are an ecosystem, they provide habitats for many animals.
A: How do rivers affect habitats?
Q: The pacific plates are sliding under other plates along its western side/edge, decreasing its size.
A: Is the pacific ocean getting bigger or smaller?
Q: It is warm water that travels from the western to eastern Pacific.
A: What is El Niño?
Q: They are shallow, sloping areas of a continent next to an ocean.
A: What are continental shelves?
Q: Flat land that is easily flooded by nearby water streams.
A: What is a floodplain?
Q: They do this by erosion and deposition.
A: Do rivers make land when they flow?
Q: These are flows of cold water
A: What are deep currents?
Q: It is the cooling surface of the water near South America; the reverse of El Niño.
A: What is La Niña?
Q: Things that are about/related to the sea.
A: What does marine mean?
Q: High ground land that separates water flowing in one direction from another
A: What is a watershed?
Q: This is where a river or stream begins
A: What is a source?
Q: They are warmed by sun and moved by winds
A: What are surface currents?
Q: They are currents that reach the shoreline which makes them erode rock and cliffs.
A: How are sea stacks created?
Q: They are currents flowing in a circular pattern/motion
A: What are gyres?
Q: Loop or bend in a river
A: What is a meander?
Q: This is the place where the fresh water from the river mixes with the salt water from the ocean
A: What is an estuary
Q: It moves warm water from the tropics over into the North Atlantic.
A: What does The Gulf Stream do?
Q:They are long, narrow bends of sand.
A: What are sand spits?
Q: This is how warm surface water is pushed away, letting cool water draw up from below
A: What are global ocean currents?