Parts
Streams that form the beginning of a river.
What are headwaters?
Factories and farming are examples of this.
What are sources of river pollution?
Process where fragments of soil and rock are broken off and carried away.
What is erosion?
The Great Salt Lake actually has very low salt levels.
False. Its salt levels are very high. This makes the water denser and people more buoyant.
Area around the mouth of the river.
What is delta?
Flooding and harming the food chain are examples of this.
What are effects of river pollution?
When fragments are dropped off in a new location.
What is deposition?
The Mississippi River Watershed is the largest watershed in the United States.
True
Flat land next to a river that goes underwater when the river floods.
What are floodplains?
Spread of disease is an example of this.
What are the effects of river pollution?
The area where fresh water from the river meets salt water from the sea.
What is an estuary?
There are less plants and nutrients in headwaters areas.
True
Between headwaters and floodplain.
What is downriver?
True or False: Homes can be a source of river pollution?
True.
A flowing water habitat.
What is a river?
Floodplains never change. They always have the same amount of water.
False. Floodplains change depending on how full the river is.
The area draining into a river.
What is a watershed?