Geography - water on land
- Created by: bethstory
- Created on: 08-04-17 11:24
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- Water on the land
- Rivers features
- Source
- Where a river starts
- Drainage Basin
- Area drained by a river
- Tributaries
- A stream or river that flows into a larger lake or river
- Confluence
- Small river joins a larger one
- Watershed
- The boundary between two river basins
- Channel
- Where a river flows
- Mouth
- End of a river
- Source
- Key words
- Erosion
- Wearing away and removalof material
- transprotation
- Movement of material
- Deposition
- Material is put
- Load
- Material carried by river
- Erosion
- Erosion process
- Abrasion
- Stones hurled against the bank
- Attrition
- Stones bounced against each other
- Solution
- Weak acids dissolve material
- Hydraulic action
- Hamme-ring effect of turbulent water on bed
- Abrasion
- Long profile
- Line showin-g the course of river from it's source to mouth plus the change-s
- Cross profile
- Line showing what it's like to walk along from one side of valley across the channel
- Rivers features
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