Rivers 🏞️

Question 1

Source

Answer 1

Place where a river begins

Question 2

Confluence

Answer 2

Point where a river joins a larger one

Question 3

Estuary

Answer 3

Part of a river mouth that is tidal

Question 4

Delta

Answer 4

A fan-shaped area of land found at the mouth of a river

Question 5

Mouth

Answer 5

Place where the river enters the sea

Question 6

Tributary

Answer 6

A stream or river that joins a larger river

Question 7

Flood plain

Answer 7

Area that gets covered with water when the river floods

Question 8

River basin

Answer 8

The land that water flows across or under on its way to a river

Question 9

Hydraulic action

Answer 9

Is when the force of water breaks and wears away material from the bed and bank of the river

Question 10

Abrasion

Answer 10

When small rocks and pebbles are pushed along the bed of a river by the current. Rocks grinding over the surface eventually wear it down.

Question 11

Attrition

Answer 11

When rocks that rivers are carrying bash against each other in the current and eventually break each other apart. (The smaller fragments are then carried along by the river and eventually come smaller and more rounded )

Question 12

Solution

Answer 12

When some kinds of rocks (such as limestone) are slowly disolved by the water over time.

Question 13

Traction

Answer 13

a method of transportation for large stones or boulders in a river. The stones are rolled along the river bottom by the water because they are too large to transport in the water.