RIVER PROCESSES

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  • Created on: 28-03-13 20:15
What type of river erosion is it where rocks are carried along by the river, in turn wearing down the bed and banks?
Hydraulic Action
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How does solution erosion take place?
Soluble particles are dissolved into the river and slowly wear away the banks
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What type of river transport bounces small pebbles and stones along the river bed?
Saltation
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How does transport by solution work?
Minerals are dissolved in the water and carried along by the flow
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What is suspension?
A type of transportation that occurs in a river involving fine, light material.
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What is attrition?
A form of erosion in a river where rocks being carried by the river smash together to create, smaller, smoother and rounder particles
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What is it called when rocks being carried by the river gradually wear down the river bed and banks?
Abrasion
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What occurs in the suspension process and is it an erosion or transportation process?
A transportation process where fine, light material is carried along in the water
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When energy levels in a river are very high...
...large rocks and boulders can be transported
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Energy levels in a river and normally higher...
...during times of flood and near a river's source
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At the mouth of a river, when enters a lake or sea...
...the velocity drops and its energy levels are lowest
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Deposition occurs when...
...a river loses energy
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How does solution erosion take place?

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Soluble particles are dissolved into the river and slowly wear away the banks

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What type of river transport bounces small pebbles and stones along the river bed?

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Card 4

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How does transport by solution work?

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What is suspension?

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