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Which side of the stream is shallower the inside curve or outside?
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∙ 13y ago
Since the outside curve has a higher velocity, it has more erosion meaning the inside curve has a slower velocity more deposition causing it to be shallower. The outside curve is deep.
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What is a curve that is higher on the outside than it is on the inside called?
A banked curve.
Compare the rate of water flow on the inside of a meander curve with that on the outside of the curve?
No
Why does sediment erode on the outside curve of a stream?
Rivers "carry" their sediment load only as long as the velocity of the water remains high enough to create sufficient turbulence to keep the particles "stirred up". Once a river loses its velocity and the stirring effect of the turbulence subsides the sediment load can no longer remain suspended in the water. At this point gravity takes over and the river begins to "drop" its sediments in a process named deposition.Now a river going around a curve is like two tires at each end of an axle going around a curve. The tire on the outside of the curve has to move faster than the tire on the inside of the curve since it has a longer radius of travel. So too the water in the river moves faster at the outside of the curve than the water inside the curve. Between the two different water velocities the deposition is going to occur on the inside curve of the river where the water loses its velocity.Conversely, the opposite of deposition which is erosion will take place at the outside of the curve in the river.
What Most rivers curve or meander. Water travels more slowly on the outside of the curve and more quickly on the inside of the curve Which statement is true?
A river's current slow down and tend to meander across a flat valley floor. The river's current is faster on the outside of the bend, and slower on the inside.
A curve in a stream channel?
this is called a meandering stream.
What is a bend or curve in a stream channel?
stream channel
Describe how the speed of flowing water changes where a river bend?
It's all about fluid dynamics. The water in a river acts like a single substance. It has the tendency to stay together. One part of the fluid is not easily pulled apart from the rest. So when the water comes to a curve, the whole "bunch" of water wants to stay together and travel downhill at the same time. However, the water at the outside of the curve has to travel faster to keep up with the water on the inside of the curve because it must cover more distance in the same amount of time. The same fluid principles also apply to air and account for the lift that occurs when air travels over an airplane wing.
Loop like curve in a river or stream?
A curve in a mature or old age river is called a meander and forms when the slightest curve forms and starts to grow larger. This is because on the inside of a curve water moves slower and deposits sediment, and on the outside the exact opposite happpens when faster moving water pounds against the curve making it bigger. In an old age stream when the meanders get big enough the section of river that's curved can actually be cut-off during a flood because water always wants to take the quicker path. The lake that forms when this happens is called and ox-bow lake. It is called this beacue the ox-bow was put on oxen and used to plow fields around the time this kind of lake was named and they had simmilar shapes.
What is A curve in a river is called?
A meander is a curve or bend in a stream or river.
How do you Illustrate on Production Possibility Frontier diagram?
The PPF graph is a bowed out curve. The x-axis being quantity produced of one product/service and the y-axis being another quantity produced of a product/service. Any point on the curve is productive efficiency. Outside of the curve is unattainable and inside of the curve is inefficient.
Explain what happens when the demand curve intersects with the supply curve?
explain what happens inside curve sample
What makes a river wined?
The current is faster on the outside of a bend than on the inside. The outside bank will erode and the inside will fill in. Also depends on the rock make up. In this way, in a uniform soil/rock, a river will follow a sine-type curve along its flatland basin etched out over millions of years and the sine curve will advance down the current flow line.
