Rivers geography

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  • Created on: 28-05-09 17:33
Rivers change through which three processes?
Erosion, transportation and deposition
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What needs to happens to form DELTAS?
deposition at the mouth of rivers
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how many courses are rivers divided into
three
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what are interlocking spurs?
As the river erodes the landscape in the upper course, it winds and bends to avoid areas of hard rock. Creating interlocking spurs.
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for a waterfall two be created what types of rock are needed?
hard and soft
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What features are created when a river erodes laterally creating large sweeping bends in the river channel?
Meanders
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When alluvium (silt) builds up on the banks of a river, what are formed?
Levees
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What needs to happens to form DELTAS?

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deposition at the mouth of rivers

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how many courses are rivers divided into

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what are interlocking spurs?

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for a waterfall two be created what types of rock are needed?

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christian

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was very short?

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