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A floodplain forms where a stream what?
cuts mainly side to side
What kind of river forms a floodplain?
its cool
What is the flat area alongside the course of a stream that is subjected to flooding called?
The floodplain.
What is land that gets covered by water from a stream or river during a flood?
A 'floodplain'.
During a flood a river drops the largest pieces of its sediment on the floodplain close to its normal channel but why?
When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that it carries onto its floodplain
What is the flat low-lying portion of a stream valley that is subject to inundation during flooding?
floodplain
What is the difference between the topographic floodplain and the hydrologic floodplain?
Hydrologic floodplain, the land adjacent to the baseflow channel residing below bankfull elevation. It is inundated about two years out of three. Not every stream corridor has a hydrologic floodplain.Topographic floodplain, the land adjacent to the channel including the hydrologic floodplain and other lands up to an elevation based on the elevation reached by a flood peak of a given frequency; for example, the 1-percent (100 year) floodplain.Another way to look at it, in an incising channel, that is to say that the river is cutting into valley, will create two floodplain benches, the lower and narrow one the hydrologic floodplain and the higher and much wider one the topographical floodplain.
What is created when a stream cuts into its channel in a side to side fashion?
Meanders are created in the stream bed when a shallow graded stream cuts from side to side in its erosion process.It will create cliffs on the outside of the bends, and smooth banks on the inside of the stream. These features will migrate upstream.
Which part of a river would have a wide flood plain?
A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional or periodic flooding.
What forms a stream?
water
What feature forms when the river overflows and the low lying land of both sides are submerged in water?
It could be considered a floodplain, as technically a floodplain is "An area of floodable land that is submerged in the flood and dry in the low water season."
How does velocity affect a stream of water?
It cuts a wider, shallow channel .
