RIVERA

Question 1

TRACTION

Answer 1

rolling or dragging large grains over a river bed

Question 2

SALTATION

Answer 2

bouncing of sand grains

Question 3

SUSPENSION

Answer 3

transportation of very fine sediment

Question 4

HYDROLIC ACTION

Answer 4

the motion of water hitting off a surface

Question 5

ABRASION

Answer 5

small stones wear away the riverbanks

Question 6

attrition

Answer 6

the impact of rocks hitting of eachother

Question 7

solution

Answer 7

minerals dissolve and are carried along

Question 8

WAHT THE JORUNEY OF A RIVER

Answer 8

the youthful/upper course the source
the mature/middle course the floodplains
the old/lower course the mouth

Question 9

INTERLOCKING SPIRS

Answer 9

areas of high ground that jut out in the youthful stage

Question 10

WATERFALLS

Answer 10

a vertical drop in the rivers youthful stage

Question 11

MEANDERS

Answer 11

curves or bends in the rivers mature stage they’re formed by erosion and deposition

Question 12

ox bow lakes

Answer 12

a horse shoe shaped lake formed when a meander is out off from the river in the mature stage

Question 13

flood plains

Answer 13

a wider flat area of land on either side of the river in its old stage it’s nearing the sea and deposition is the main process

Question 14

deltas

Answer 14

landforms of deposition in the old stage

Question 15

V SHAPPED VALLEY

Answer 15

a steep sided valley in the shape of a V it is shaped by vertical erosion

Question 16

LEVEES

Answer 16

a build up of alluvium on the river banks and are cause by floods