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05/18/2015
A floodplain is an area of low-lying ground adjacent to a river, formed mainly of river sediments and subject to flooding.🏄
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Asked in Definitions
What is a definition of river flooding?
It means a river whose waters have overflowed it's banks onto
the adjacent floodplain.
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Asked in Definitions, Landforms
What was the importance of a floodplain?
the importance of a floodplain is a floodplain keeps from houses
in front of a creek from washing away
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Asked in Example Sentences
How do you use floodplain in a sentence?
the floodplain was near my house.
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Asked in Example Sentences
What is a good sentence for floodplain?
I am uncomfortable, living in a floodplain...
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Asked in Geography, Definitions
What is the most famous floodplain?
Bachadeltaha Floodplain in South Africa
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Asked in Example Sentences
What is a sentence with the word floodplain?
Thankfully, the floodplain is dry right now.
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Asked in Landforms, The Difference Between, Erosion and Weathering
What is the difference between the topographic floodplain and the hydrologic floodplain?
Hydrologic floodplain, the land adjacent to the baseflow
channel residing below bankfull elevation. It is inundated about
two years out of three. Not every stream corridor has a hydrologic
floodplain.
Topographic floodplain, the land adjacent to the channel
including the hydrologic floodplain and other lands up to an
elevation based on the elevation reached by a flood peak of a given
frequency; for example, the 1-percent (100 year) floodplain.
Another way to look at it, in an incising channel, that is to
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Asked in Sentence and Word Structure, Example Sentences, Brackets Parentheses and Quotation Marks
How do you put floodplain in a sentence?
An example of a floodplain would be the land around Lake
Superior
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Asked in Public Parks
When was Culgoa Floodplain National Park created?
Culgoa Floodplain National Park was created in 1994.
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Asked in Rain and Flooding
What happens to the floodplain during a flood?
Hmm, let's think about this. Floodplain.
Plain: A flat area of land.
Flooded: Filled with water.
So a floodplain gets filled with water,
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Asked in Authors, Poets, and Playwrights
What has the author Yao Yin written?
Yao Yin has written:
'Modifications to the upper Mississippi River and their effects
on floodplain forests' -- subject(s): Floodplain forestry,
Floodplain management
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Asked in Example Sentences
How do you use the word floodplain in a sentence?
The Nile river has a wonderful floodplain, and the people that
live there have no problems growing their crops.
Hope that will help:)
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Asked in Lakes and Rivers
Were is the floodplain in a river?
A floodplain, or flood plain, is flat or nearly flat land
adjacent to a stream or river that experiences occasional or
periodic flooding.
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Asked in Geography, Landforms
What are the advantages and disadvantages of living on a floodplain?
Advantages = If you are a farmer, the soil on a floodplain is
very rich and fertile.
Disadvantages = Your house can be flooded and you lose
everything.
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Asked in Lakes and Rivers
What will happen to homes and buisnesses located in a floodplain?
The buildings would flood because if the river floods then
the floodplain, a floodplain is flat land that
is next to a river, made up of alluvium (sand, silt, and clay).
When the river overflows, the floodplain is often under water,
will/ would flood too, so if the land
floods, then, the buildings and businesses on that land will
flood too.
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Asked in Definitions, Landforms
How does a floodplain form?
They form from deposition NOT EROSION!!
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Asked in Lakes and Rivers, Lake Superior
Is Lake Superior is a floodplain?
A floodplain is a flat valley formed by a river or stream that
is prone to overflowing and flooding. Lake superior is a great
lake, so no.
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Asked in Mississippi
Where is the Mississippi floodplain located?
in the eastern part of louisians
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Asked in Rain and Flooding
Is a flood plain a erosion or deposition?
a floodplain is a deposition
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Asked in Lakes and Rivers, Definitions
What is the low flat part of a river valley?
The low flat part of a river valley is called the floodplain.
The floodplain is usually a very fertile are due to the river
deposits.
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Asked in Lakes and Rivers
During a flood a river drops the largest pieces of its sediment on the floodplain close to its normal channel but why?
When a stream floods, it deposits much of the sediment that
it
carries onto its floodplain
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Asked in Geography, Definitions, Landforms
What is floodplain zoning?
Floodplain zoning is the a soft engineering management strategy
whose aim is to reduce flood plain developement. An area or 'zone'
of the floodplain is protected against to minimise financial loss
via damage to property. This area can naturally flood, without
risking damage to people or property.
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