River Courses
What is a river course?
The route the river takes
What is the name for the beginning of a river?
True or False: Watersheds separates two drainage basins
True!
True or False: The water on Earth is always moving.
True! The water cycle describes this movement.
Where is salt water found?
In seas and oceans!
River courses have how many parts?
What is the name of the specific type of erosion that creates v-shaped valleys?
Vertical erosion
What is a watershed?
An area of land where all the main rivers drain into the same sea or ocean.
What is the largest river in the world? not longest
Amazon
True or False: The water in seas/oceans is always moving.
True!
What are the names of the three courses of a river?
Upper, Middle and Lower course
Rivers that flow into other rivers are called ________.
Tributaries
What is the name of a crescent shaped lake that is formed when the neck of a meander is cut off
Oxbow lake
What are the three processes of the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
What does the gravity of the moon cause?
Tides
In what course do deltas form?
Lower course
Name two features found in the middle course?
meander, oxbow lake
What is the name of the hole in the base of a waterfalls called
plunge pool
What is the hydrosphere?
All of the water on Earth!
"The energy of the wind transfers to the water. This forms waves."
name three landforms in the upper course of a river
Spurs, gorges, waterfalls, rapids, plunge pools, v-shaped valleys
Define meander
A curve or bend in a river
What rocks are easily eroded?
Soft or less resistant rocks
What is a levee?
An embankment that is formed when a river floods the adjacent land leaving behind pebbles or sediments.
What are the two causes of currents?
2. When different temperature water mixes