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A delta in this context is an especially fertile region caused by the collection of silts at a river mouth, where the river spreads so it is shallower but wider. Its name comes from the typical shape; a triangle, which represents the Greek letter delta.
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What is a place where a river flows into an ocean called?
A river usually ends by flowing into an ocean, a lake or a bigger river. The place where the river flows out into a bigger body of water is called the "mouth" of the river.
What do you call the place where a river ends?
It is called a delta. Or an estuary. It is the mouth of the river.
What is the name for the place where the Niger river flows into the ocean?
The Niger River flows through the Niger Delta into the Bight of Biafra in the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a landform that develops when a river deposits sediment as it flows into the ocean?
River Delta or just simply delta.
What is delta as in Egypt?
The Nile River Delta in north Egypt where the river flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
Sediment deposited where a river flows into an ocean?
yes it is called a delta
Sediments deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake form a(n)?
it is a delta
How river ganga flows into the sea through?
a Delta..
What river delta empties into a lake sea or ocean?
The Nile River Delta is where the Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
A land formed by the soil the river deposits as it flows into the sea?
sedimentation
what place is the Mississippi?
The Mississippi is a major river in North America. The river rises in northern Minnesota and flows southwards for 2,320 miles to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
Is formed when sediment is deposited where a river flows into an ocean?
A "Delta".
