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What happens to the size of the sediment a stream normally carries when it flows from a mountainous area to a flatter area?
The sediment size carried by the stream increases. EW
When a river overflows its banks it deposits sediment over a broad flat area of land on both sides of the river. This broad flat area is called a?
Floodplain
When a river overflows its banks it deposits sediment over a broad flat area of land on both sides of the river. This broad flat area is called a .?
Floodplain
What is an area of land roughly triangular in shape which form a river enters a lake or the sea?
The roughly triangular area formed where a river enters the sea or other body of standing water is called a delta. They are created when the river water deposits its sediment as the water spreads out at the mouth of the river.delta
What is the land area form which a stream gets its water?
The stream's catchment.
How can water cause erosion and deposition?
As water flows, it picks up particles of the ground and carries it along the stream of water. That is erosion. As water deposits into another body of water, for example the Mississippi river into the Gulf of Mexico, those particles of ground are deposited in that area. That is deposition.
When a river overflows its banks it deposits sediment over a broad flat area of land on both sides of the river what is this broad flat called?
Floodplain
Can deltas and caves result when running water such as a river erodes sediments from an area?
I'm afraid you've misunderstood sediment, and you can't concatenate two such different structures as you have. Sediment is deposited fragments of material sized from silt up to cobbles or boulders, resulting from weathering and erosion of any rock. Deltas are estuarine deposits of sediment transported suspended in the river, from erosion up-stream. Caves, or most of them anyway, do not result from erosion of sediments, but from the erosion by chemical weathering (dissolution) of sedimentary rock - specifically limestone - and the material is carried away in solution not suspension.
What is an underground area of soil sand or rock that is saturated with water called?
Sediment.
How does elevation change along the course of river?
In this investigation, students explore river and stream erosion. Precipitation (rain) that falls to the Earth's surface either soaks into the ground, evaporates, or flows across the land. Water that flows across the land runs downhill. Along the way, it can pick up and carry sediment ranging from fine clay to coarse sand or gravel. As the water runs downhill, it cuts into the soil, forming channels called gullies. When gullies reach a low-lying area, they merge together, forming a larger stream. Streams merge together to form larger streams or rivers. Most sediment carried downhill eventually ends up in a stream and is carried away. In this way, streams affect more of the Earth's surface than any other agent of erosion. The amount of sediment a stream can carry depends on the speed and size of the stream. The speed of the water in a stream depends on its slope. The steeper the slope, the faster the water moves. Fast-moving or large streams can carry more sediment than slow-moving or small streams.
What is the land area that contributes water to a stream?
Drainage Basin
Along straight stretches of a stream channel the highest velocities of water are found in what area?
near the water surface in the center of the stream
