vocabulary
The opposite direction to the way water in a river flows
What is upstream?
The famous waterfalls on the border of Canada and New York
What is Niagara Falls?
In this part of the river it is normally fast flowing, narrow channel, steep sides and valleys.
What is the upper course?
The speed of the water on the outside of a curve on a meander?
what is fast?
The reed that grows along the Nile, used for making paper.
What is papyrus?
The end of a river where it flows into the sea
What is the mouth?
The power generated from moving water.
What is hydroelectric power?
In this part of the river it is slower flowing, deep, wide channel, less steep sides and a wider valley and you can normally find floodplains
What is the lower course?
This is where deposition occurs
What is the inside of the meander?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A smaller river or stream that joins a big river
What is a tributary
The area of the glacier where snow falls and builds up
What is the Accumulation Zone?
In this part of the river it is slower flowing, deep, wide channel, less steep sides and a wider valley and you can normally find meanders and confluence
What is the middle course?
Where erosion occurs on a straight part of a river
What is the center?
The ancient name for the dry season along the Nile.
What is Shemu?
A wide muddy or sandy area where some rivers meet the se. The river slows down an drops all the sediment it was carrying
What is a delta?
A large mass of slow moving ice.
What is a glacier?
where you can find the estuary.
What is the lower course?
When meanders become so curvy that they merge creating a section of the river with multiple paths.
What is an oxbow lake?
The two rivers that join to make up the Nile
What are the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
Where a river reaches the ocean and the river and the ocean mix. These are normally wide and flat
What is an Estuary?
The eroded rock behind the flow of the waterfall.
What is the undercutting?
Where you can find rapids.
What is the upper course?
deposition occurs when the water flows at this speed.
The god of the Nile.
Who is Hapi?