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erosion
What is the process of wearing away of land by water?
100
dam
What is a structure build across a river to hold back water
100
Providence River
What is the river that flows through Providence.
100
mouth
What is what is the place where a river empties into another body of water?
100
glacier
What is a river of ice?
200
delta
What is a deposit at the mouth of a river?
200
levee
What is a structure built along the sides of a river bed to prevent flooding and erosion?
200
Mississippi River
What is the river that drains the middle of our country
200
source
What is the place where water come from for a river?
200
u-shaped valley
What is river carved by a glacier?
300
plunge pool
What is the depression at the base of a waterfall?
300
riverbed
What is a channel were water flows or once flowed?
300
Yellow River
What is a major river in China?
300
meander
What is it called when a river makes bends and s-shaped curves seen in a old and mature river?
300
v-shaped valley
What is a valley carved by a river?
400
landslide
What is a sudden slide of loose rock
400
floodplain
What is the flat land bordering a river that is covered by water during times of high water?
400
Nile River
What is the river that flows through Egypt?
400
riverbank
What is the slopes of land bordering a river?
400
watershed
What is the area of land drained by a river?
500
sediment
What is the dirt, mud and sand carried by a river?
500
diatomaceous earth
What is the white powder made from diatoms we used for river models?
500
Amazon River
What is the biggest river in South America?
500
tributary
What is a stream that empties into another larger stream or river?
500
bedload
What is the rocks and gravel rolling along the bottom of a river?