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What Part of the River is the Source?
The Upper Course of the river
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What Part of the River is the Mouth
The Lower Course of the river
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What is the Long Profile of the river?
This Shows you how the gradient (steepness) of the river changes over different courses
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What is the Cross Profile of the river?
This shows you what the cross-section of a river looks like
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What is Deposition?+When does it Happen?
Deposition is when a River drops Eroded Material its transporting, this happens when a river slows down(loses velocity)/
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Card 2

Front

What Part of the River is the Mouth

Back

The Lower Course of the river

Card 3

Front

What is the Long Profile of the river?

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

What is the Cross Profile of the river?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

What is Deposition?+When does it Happen?

Back

Preview of the front of card 5

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