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What is a word for a flat area of land which can flood if the river rises?
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∙ 7y ago
It is the flood plain.
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The flat-lying area surrounding a river channel is?
The flood plain
What is the Flat area extended beyond the banks of a river?
It is called the flood plain.
What is a flat and wide land?
The flat, wide area along a river is called its flood plain. This is sometimes part of a larger area called the alluvial plain, which formed as the river shifted over time and deposited soil when it flooded.
Why are flood plains called flood plains?
A plain is basically a large, flat area and flood plains are the large flat areas to either sides of rivers. These areas, when it rains so much that the river bursts its banks, are covered in water: flooded.
What is a river's flat wide area of land along the side of it?
It's called a 'flood plain'.
What is a rivers flat wide area of land along side of it?
It would be the flood plain or meander belt.
Flat plain formed by river deposits during time of flood?
flood plain
What is a wide area of land along a river?
The flat, wide area along a river is called its flood plain. This is sometimes part of a larger area called the alluvial plain, which formed as the river shifted over time and deposited soil when it flooded.
What is a flat land bordering the Banks of a river?
Flood plain
Flat land at the mouth of a river?
The floodplain is an area of flat land found on either side of a river that usually becomes wider as the river nears its mouth. A low watery formation of land at the mouth of a river is called a delta.
Why are they called flood plains?
A plain is basically a large, flat area and flood plains are the large flat areas to either sides of rivers. These areas, when it rains so much that the river bursts its banks, are covered in water: flooded.
What is a flat land bordering the banks of a river called?
Flood plain
