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Describe three ways that sediment moves in a river?
Sediment moves through a river by these three ways: bouncing, flying, and being suspended.
What is an example sentence for sediment?
sediments are known as red blood cells. They also called rbc.
What is the sediment a river carries called?
It's called transportation.
The amount of sediment in a river is called?
it's called the river's load.
How does a river collect sediments?
Most sediment washes or falls into the river as a result of mass movement and runoff. Other sediment erodes from the bottom or sides of the river
What is the total quantity of sediment carried by a river called?
sediment load
How a fossil forms in sediment?
When a river flows into a lake or ocean, the sediments that the river carries settle to the bottom. Layers of sediment may covor the dead organism.
Moving rivers roll heavy materials along the river bottom?
sediment
What is sediment carried by the river that collect's at the rivers mouth called?
The sediment itself is called silt, and it often is deposited at the mouth of rivers and forms a landform called a river delta.
When water from a river carrias sediment or tiny pieces of sand it leaves some of the sediment along the banks of the river this is called what?
deposition
What causes a river to deposit sediment?
Most sediment washes or falls into a river as a result of mass movement and runoff. Other sediment erodes from the bottom or sides of the river. Wind can also drop sediment into the water. Hope I helped! -DorkyGeek77
What is the bottom of the river?
the bottom of the river is called a bed
