Types Of Transportation

Question 1

What is transportation?

Answer 1

The river picks up sediment and carries it downstream in different ways.

Question 2

What are the 4 types of transportation?

Answer 2

Traction, saltation, suspension, solution

Question 3

What is traction?

Answer 3

large, heavy pebbles are rolled along the river bed. This is most common near the source of a river, as here the load is larger.

Question 4

How do you remember traction?

Answer 4

Tractor wheels

Question 5

True or false

Solution pebbles are bounced along the river bed, most commonly near the source.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

What’s suspension?

Answer 6

lighter sediment is suspended (carried) within the water, most commonly near the mouth of the river.

Question 7

What’s solution (transportation)?

Answer 7

the transport of dissolved chemicals. This varies along the river depending on the presence of soluble rocks.

Question 8

What is it when pebbles are bounced along the river bed?

Answer 8

Saltation

Question 9

What is deposition?

Answer 9

When the river loses energy, it drops any of the material it has been carrying.

Question 10

What are some factors leading to deposition?

Answer 10

• shallow water
• at the end of the river’s journey, at the river’s mouth
• when the volume of the water decreases