An Introduction to River Systems

Water as a medium; our traditional view of rivers is one-dimensional; rivers are actually four-dimensional; river processes occur across a range of scales; rivers can be viewed as corridors

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What % of world's water is in rivers?
0.00008%
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At what temperature is water most dense?
4degrees
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Why have the heterogeneity characteristics of natural riverine landscapes been masked in many regions?
There
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Name the next scale of river in this sequence... region, catchment, stream...
Stream reach
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The lateral dimension of rivers is from...
Channel-->river itself
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What is the 4th dimension of rivers?
Temporal
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Hydrological exchange pathways are most diverse in...
Beads
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The river is confined (eg. by a canyon or because water is moving downstream) in...
String
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What are terraces?
Former floodplain surfaces
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Numerous on-channel lakes, falls and rapids (as opposed to lateral migration and a graded channel) describes a river in its..
Youthful stage
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