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River Features

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  • A small river that joins a larger river.
    Tributary
  • Name this river feature.
    Interlocking Spurs
  • What stage of a river is a gorge
    Young/Youthful Stage
  • Name this river feature.
    V-Shaped Valley
  • Name this river feature.
    Ox-Bow Lake
  • True/False: Solution occurs up steam
    False
  • Name this river feature.
    Levees
  • Name this river feature.
    Waterfall
  • The term for where two rivers meet?
    Confluence
  • The name of the feature on the inner bend of a meander
    Point Bar
  • Name this river feature.
    Flood Plain
  • The term for sand, silt & clay deposited after a flood.
    Alluvium
  • True/False: Particle size is smaller upstream?
    False
  • The bends in a river become...........forming meanders.
    Pronounced
  • Deposition on inner bends of rivers further.......the water to the outer bend
    Deflects
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