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What is the area where a freshwater river or stream enters the ocean?
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The area where a freshwater river or stream enters the ocean is called an estuary. It is a coastal area of brackish water formed when freshwater enters the ocean.
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What is in a delta?
A delta is a body of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river or stream where it enters an ocean or lake.
What is a river?
A river is the largest type of freshwater flow across a land surface, usually starting from high ground, such as mountains, and ending at a lake or sea. A river flows in a stream down a path called a channel, the bottom being its bed and the sides its banks. The point at which a river enters a sea or bay is called its mouth. A river section that experiences tidal flows from a sea or ocean is called an estuary. A delta is formed where a river's silt or sand is deposited as new land areas.
Into what ocean does the Limpopo river flow?
It enters the ocean In the Indian ocean.
Why do particles carried by river settle to the bottom as the river enters the ocean?
Because the velocity of the river water decreases as it enters the ocean.
Why do the particles carried by a river settle to the bottom as the river enters the ocean?
Because the velocity of the river water decreases as it enters the ocean.
Why do particles carried by a river settle to the bottom as the river enters the ocean?
Because the velocity of the river water decreases as it enters the ocean.
What is a small body of flowing freshwater?
It might be considered a creek or stream.
What is the river that enters the indian ocean at Mozambique?
The Limpopo is the river the river that enters the Indian ocean at Mozambique. It forms the borders between Botswana , South Africa, and Zimbabwe
What is an anabranch?
An anabranch is a diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
What is the only freshwater part of the ocean?
Ohio river
Do you find trout in a ocean or river?
river, or freshwater habitat of all kinds.
What is The place where a river enters a lake or larger river or a ocean?
A Delta.
