Common Features of a River
The beginning or start of a river
What is the source of a river?
Steep, v-shaped valley, narrow, shallow channel, high level of material on river bed (larger rocks).
What are the characteristics of the youthful stage of a river?
The river wearing the landscape away.
What is erosion?
Rolling, bouncing, suspension and solution.
Name the different ways materials can be transported.
Areas of high ground that jut out at both sides of the V-shaped valley. Like a zig zag.
What are interlocking spurs?
The route a river takes to the sea.
What is the course of a river?
Flood plains and levees
What landforms would you find in the old (lower) stage of the river?
The river carrying the material that has been eroded.
Transportation
reduction in the rivers speed, increase in load size, reduction in river's volume and when the gradient levels off.
What are the causes of deposition?
A vertical drop in the course of a river in its youthful stage.
What is a waterfall?
A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger stream or river
What is a tributary?
Youthful, Mature and Old
Name the three stages of the river.
The river dropping the material that it has deposited
Deposition
The material that is eroded by the river and carried along in its flow.
What is the river's load?
a horseshoe shaped lake formed when a meander is cut off from the main river
What is an oxbow lake?
The point where a river comes to the end, usually when entering the sea.
What is the mouth of a river?
Meander
Another name for a bend or a twist in a river.
The physical force of the river moving wears away and breaks off the rock and soil from the banks of the river.
What is hydraulic action?
What is traction?
triangular or fan shaped area of land at the mouth of the river.
What is a delta?
The area of high ground which separates two drainage basins.
What is a watershed?
Interlocking spurs, v-shaped valley and oxbow lakes
Which landform is NOT found in the youthful stage?
Rocks such as limestone and soil are dissolved by acids in the water.
Solution
the smaller pebbles are bounced along the bed of the river. The process is also known as bouncing.
A wide, flat area of land on either side of the river in its old stage.
What is a flood plain?