Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Rivers
- Key Words
- Source
- The area in which a river begins
- Mouth
- Where a river end its journey, flowing into the sea
or a lake
- Tributary
- A smaller river that joins a larger river
- Confluence
- The point at which two rivers join
- Watershed
- The boundary between two drainage basins
marked by high land
- Drainage Basin
- The area which is drained by a river
and its tributaries
- Drainage Density
- The total length of all the streams in the basin divided
by the total area of the basin.
- Upper Course
- Rapids
- Waterfalls
- V Shape Valleys
- Steep
- Interlocking Spurs
- Gorges
- Erosion
- Hydraulic Action
- Attrition
- Corrosion/Solution
- Physical Weathering
- Chemical Weathering
- Biological Weathering
- Slumping
- Soil Creep
- Abrasion/Corrasion