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What determines the rivers ability to erode the land beneath it?
Type of land surface, speed and volume of water.
What happens to the ability of a river to erode land under it if its slope decreases?
If a rivers slope decreases, its ability to erode land under it decreases too. The slope determines the rivers velocity. The steeper the slope, the higher the velocity, the more erosion.
Are rivers able to erode and deposit land?
Yes they are. Water can erode the river banks - and carry the loose soil to other places - where it's deposited.
Which will cause more erosion slow or fast moving river?
A fast-moving river will erode the land faster.
Where is gold in Mississippi?
Probably, as many rivers that erode at the land have opened gold deposites, and the Mississippi is quite a large river.
What land form is created when glaciers erode backwards into the mountainside and form a shape like a bowl?
Answer: Cirques
5 features formed by rivers and streams as they erode the land?
alluvial fans, deltas, groundwater erosion, deposition, soil on flood plains
How do rivers move?
River water flows downhill due to gravity, and riverbanks keep the river contained (most of the time). Some rivers meander, too, due to the way rivers erode the land. The older a river is, the more it meanders.
What must result in a lower base level for rivers and streams?
The results of a lower base lever for rivers and streams is the sea level falls and the land rises. The base level is the level below which a stream cannot erode.
Rivers get in the way but how?
the river might erode the land around it causing the peoples houses to fall in and also the people have to build a bridge across to cross it and get to the other side
What do wind and water do to land?
They erode the land after thousands of years.
Why do glaciers cause erosion?
Glaciers cause erosion since they are in form of a block of snow which will melt and erode the land. This can be in form of abrasion, freeze-thaw or plucking.
