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The process of wearing away the riverbed or riverbanks by the river?
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Erosion
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What are riverbanks formed by?
riverbanks are formed by flowing water.The surface of the Earth can changedue to both slow and rapid processes.For example, the formation of a riverbank due erosion by flowing water is a slow process that can take a very long time. Riverbanks are the dirt walls found on both sides of a river. They hold the river inside, except during times of flooding.Riverbanks are formed asflowing watercuts deeper into the soil and rock below. The pieces of rock and soil that the river scours away are moved further down the river, where they are later deposited.
Rocks carried by the river smash together and break into smaller pieces This process is called?
Abrasion. (~the process of scraping or wearing away)
What is the difference between transportation and erosion?
erosion is the process of wearing something away and transportation is the process of moving one thing along the river.
What will happen to a riverbed if sediments are deposited?
Sandbanks and sandbars will form, preventing navigation, or changing the direction of the river.
What is the process of abrasion?
Abrasion occurs then rocks and stones, picked up by the glacier through plucking, are rubbed against the bedrock at the bottom and side of the glacier, as the glacier passes, pulled down hill by gravity. This causes wearing on the landscape.
What is the name of the sides of a river called?
riverbanks
What has a bed but never sleeps and a mouth but never speaks?
A River (riverbed and the mouth of a river)A river
What is call the bottom of a river?
The bottom of a river is called the river bed.
What river causes by removing rocks and soil from its riverbed?
Erosion :)
What are river rapids?
An extremely fast-moving part of a river, caused by a steep descent in the riverbed.
How ate a riverbed different from a circuit?
How are circuit And a river bed different
What is at the bottom of a river?
At the riverbed, as it is called, are pebbles, sand, stones etc
What is The bottom of a river is?
At the riverbed, as it is called, are pebbles, sand, stones etc
What is another name for a river bed?
Wadi is the other term for riverbed.
What term describes the floor of a river channel?
Riverbed, or simply bed.
What is the meaning of riverbed?
I dont know what tou men by exact meaning, but riverbed means "the usually water-covered ground between the banks of a river"
What has head but does not weep bed but does not sleep?
a river riverhead - the source or spring of a river riverbed - the channel in which a river flows or formerly flowed
