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What happen when the meanders in a stream bend sharply and come close together?
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What are wide curves in a stream called?
meanders
Where can meanders be found?
Meanders can be found in a river or stream. A meander is a curve or bend. It is also a winding path.
Two features of stream morphology that generally indicate that stream rejuvenation has occurred are?
Stream terraces and incised meanders
Why doesn't a stream meander in mountains?
A stream flowing down a mountain is moving to fast to form meanders.
What are Gulf Stream rings are caused by?
The Gulf Stream ring is formed when Gulf Stream meanders break off the Stream to create independent circulatory systems. Because of the formation of this ring, the warm tropical water from south of the Gulf Stream can be moved to north of the Gulf Stream.
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.
A fan-shaped mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply?
Alluvial fans.
Where is the velocity greatest with a stream with meanders?
On the outside. This is because when the water is flowing around a meander, the water practically goes around, where erosion occurs. If you know science, wherever in a stream where erosion occurs, thats where the velocity is greatest.
What is the term for a stagnant lake that forms along a winding river due to soil erosion resulting in an abandoned stream cut off from the river?
billabong
What is an example of a Bayous?
A body of water, such as a creek or small river, that is a tributary of a larger body of water.A sluggish stream that meanders through lowlands, marshes, or plantation grounds.
Which is more like a mountain stream a tributary or a meander why?
Meanders form where the supply of sediment is greater than its removal. This is not typical of mountain streams. These are likely to be minor tributaries.
Stream velocity does it have anything to do with discharge of stream or stream elevation?
Stream discharge physically depends on two factors: stream cross-sectional area and velocity. Area is composed of width and depth. Q (flow) = vel x width x depth. Stream elevation change, or how steep a stream is, will affect the velocity. Higher sloping streams (like those with few meanders) will travel faster than sinuous, snaking streams that have a lower elevation drop per length of stream.
