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What word means moving rivers pick up lighter sediment and carry it along?
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Erosion is the movement of sediments by wind, water, ice, and gravity. Transportation of sediments by rivers and streams is referred to as fluvial erosion.
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Moving rivers roll heavy materials along the river bottom?
sediment
What material is carried along the river bed?
Mature rivers carry large amounts of sediment along their lengths. This helps to shape the land and produce fertile farm lands.
Why is a beach more likely to change rapidly if it is placed along a river mouth where there are many winter storms than if it is found along a quiet stretch where there are no rivers and few storms?
Rivers carry sediment, which when deposited at the beach, increases the land. Similarly, rivers can carry sediment away from a beach, also changing its shape. These two forces can work together to effectively move sediment from one area of the beach to another. Similarly, storms also move sediment.
Why would river valleys produce cultures that farmed food?
River valleys have very fertile land, a result of rivers moving soil and sediment and depositing it in the valley. It also provides movement for people along the river.
When rivers journey downhill they cut away land along their sides and then what do they do?
they go out to a ocean or lake depositing sediment along the way. (hope this is what you meant)
Thick layers of loose sediment moving downhill along a curved surface?
it's called a slump.
What do sediments from rivers and coastal erosion form along the coastlines?
Sediments from rivers and coastal erosion form marine deltas along the coastlines. This is common at the mouth of the river where it drains to the ocean.
Moving water in a river can pick up sediment and carry it along in a what kind of load?
bed load, a large load
When is the most sediment deposited along the river?
After a heavy rain, or in the spring when the snow melts.
What is a streams bed load?
Sediment that is carried by a stream along the bottom of its channel.
Why do you think the large medieval cities were located along rivers?
Rivers were the fastest and cheapest mode of moving goods for trade and commerce. They were the highways of medieval times.
Why do rivers grow wider and deeper along their course?
The acids and the moving water erode the banks and the bottom of the river.
