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Q: What type of barrier is built to contain the flow of water?
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What is a barrier built to hold water or to stop its flow?

Dam


What are dam?

1 a barrier to obstruct the flow of water, esp. one of earth, masonry, etc., built across a stream or river. 2. a body of water confined by a dam. 3. any barrier resembling a dam


What is a barrier built across a river that may redirect its flow to other channels?

It is a dam or river dam. A type of low semi-barrier is a weir.


A structure built across a river to control the flow of water?

A dam is built across a river to control the flow of water.


What does diked mean?

DikeNoun1. Offensive terms for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine.2. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.Verb1. Enclose with a dike; "dike the land to protect it from water".


A structure built with rocks to redirect the flow of water in a stream and increase they rate of the water's flow is?

watermelon


What are built to attempt to prevent flooding?

Dams, dykes, and levees are built to control the flow of water.


Structure built across a river to control the flow of water?

Weir


What is the physical barrier in the root that regulates the flow of water to xylem via cell walls?

the endodermis


Could you give me an example using the word flow?

A dam is built across a river to restrict the flow of water.


What is the major barrier in the US that separates the flow of water in rivers from the Pacific O cean and the Atlantic Ocean?

Continental Divide


Did Roman aqueducts wear down as water rushed by?

No, they were stone built and the water was designed to flow slowly as the gradient was slight, there would be minimal erosion due to flow.