Greater discharge at this stage means more energy, so the river can carry material including rocks, sands, silts and clay (the river’s load).
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Card 7
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A river can drop its load when discharge falls or its velocity decreases.
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Card 8
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a winding bend in a river that causes lateral erosion.
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Card 9
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a free-standing, U-shaped body of water created when a winding river breaks through a thin meander neck and continues via this easier course. The meander loop is left cut off from the main river.
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Card 10
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As a river winds across the land the water is pushed to the outside of its bends where it flows at a greater velocity, causes undercutting by abrasion and forms a cliff beneath the bank.
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Card 11
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The water flows more slowly at the river’s inner bend, so deposition of material occurs here and forms a gentle slope from the bank.
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Card 12
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the low-lying ground adjacent to a river that is subject to flooding.
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Card 13
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raised banks each side of the river channel.
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Card 14
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a series of beds formed at the mouth of a river where the decrease in current causes deposition. The coarsest load is dropped first forming a flat topset bed, while silt and clay is carried further out to sea, forming foreset and bottomset beds.
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Card 15
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the bed and banks of a river are eroded by the force of the water.
