Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Rivers
- Waterfalls
- Upper course of the river
- Labels
- Hard and soft rock
- Plunge pool
- Cliff
- Overhang
- Erosion
moves them
back over
time
- Erosion
- Hydraulic action
- Water pushed into
cracks and break
the rocks
- Solution
- Acidic water wearing
away at the rocks
- Atrition
- Rocks
knocking
together and
wearing each
other away
- Abrasion
- Sand and stones
scraping away
at the bed and
banks
- Transport
- Load
- Material it
carries
- Bedload
- Heavy rocks
carried along the
bottom
- Suspention
- Small rocks carried along in the water
- Deposition
- Sediment
- Stones and
rocks that
were
deposited
as the river
- Can create natural Levees