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Because it cut through the earth surface and creates a canyon
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Why do rivers grow wider and deeper along their course?
The acids and the moving water erode the banks and the bottom of the river.
How do streams and rivers change the landscape?
They erode the landscaping around them.
Can rivers move mountains?
They can erode mountains.
How do rivers shape landscapes?
They erode edges!!
Wide flat valley located along the sides of some rivers and streams?
A Floodplain
Does a mountain erode?
Mountains erode continuously. Erosion may be by water (rain or rivers), ice (glaciers) or wind.
Turbulent river may have great power to erode?
Yes, turbulent rivers might have the greatest power to erode.
How does turbulence affect the speed of a river and a rivers power to cause erosion?
Along with friction, turbulence slows down the waters flow and also may erode the stream bed
The Continental Divide sits along the rocky mountains and seperates the flow of rivers explain where the water drains on both sides of the divide?
the continental divides sit along the rocky mountains and seperates the flow of rivers
When rivers journey downhill they cut away land along their sides and then what do they do?
they go out to a ocean or lake depositing sediment along the way. (hope this is what you meant)
A rivers power to erode depends on what three things?
A river's power to erode depends on a river's slope, the volume of flow, and the shape of the river.
Where did the first farming settlement develope in China?
Along the rivers.
