Rivers normally start on higher ground, perhaps where there is ice melt. The drops gradually join together and become a small stream. The place where a river gets its start is called the source or headwaters.
Headwater or the source.
The source of river is known as its headwaters. In the example of the Mississippi River, its headwaters is Lake Itasca in Minnesota.
A river is a large stream of fresh water that flows across land and empties into an ocean, lake, or some other body of water.
A stream changes by joining larger bodies of water as it makes it way to the ocean. It begins at the headwaters and then into a tributary river, a river delta, and then to the ocean.
Tributaries do not make a river, a tributary is a stream that flows into a larger stream of river or any other body of water
A stream that flows into a larger stream or other body of water.
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A tributary I'm pretty sure..
A headwater is the place from which the water in the river or stream originates. It is also called the source of the river or stream
A large natural stream of water emptying into a sea, lake or other body of water.