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What is the amount and size of the sediment that a river can move?
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How would size of the sediment in the streams load differ in the streams volume increasing or decreasing?
The size of the sediment would decrease further downstream (where there is a greater volume of water) as there is more energy in the flow. Therefore more erosion will occur and the sediment will rub together with other materials i.e other rocks or the river bed (this is called attrition). The sediment will therefore reduce in size but there will be a greater amount of it. (The amount of sediment is called the discharge.)
The amount of uniformity in the size of rock or sediment particles is called?
sorting
What is the relationship between velocity sediment size and river size?
As the steam velocity increases, the diameter of the sediments being transported increases.
What factors affect a river's ability to erode and carry sediment?
The factors that affect a river's ability to erode and carry sediment would be its size, how deep it is, and how fast it is going. If it is going downhill that can also affect it.
What size of rock is carried in the source of a river basin?
Im no geoligist, but im going to say sediment. It depents on the flow rate + the weight force of said rock relative to fresh water as to whether it will move.
How does the speed of water affect the sediment deposit?
The greater the streams rate of flow, the greater the amount of erosion, the larger the sediments.
What does silt and sediment mean?
Silt refers to a sediment of a certain size. Sediment can be of any size particle which has been deposited.
How is permeability related to the size of the grains that make up the sediment?
If the size of the sediment is very small then it would have poor permeability But if the size of the sediment was large then it would be easier for liquids to flow through.
What are three ways strata differ from one another?
The differ based on the kind of sediment that they are composed of, the color of their sediment, and the size of their sediment.
How are deltas classified?
A delta is a land formation caused by the flow of silt at the mouth of a river. Over time, the sediment forms a mound or a series of mounds that have considerable size.
Are all the particles of sediment the same size?
no
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
