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The sediment bouncing along the bottom of a river is called "bed load." This material, which can include sand, gravel, and larger particles, is transported by the river's current through a process known as saltation, where particles are lifted and then fall back to the riverbed. Bed load plays a crucial role in shaping the riverbed and influencing sediment transport dynamics.
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What is an example sentence for sediment?
sediments are known as red blood cells. They also called rbc.
Describe three ways that sediment moves in a river?
Sediment in a river can move via traction, where particles are pushed or dragged along the riverbed by the flow of water. Saltation involves the bouncing or hopping of smaller sediment particles along the riverbed. Finally, suspension occurs when finer sediment particles are carried within the flowing water column.
What is the sediment a river carries called?
It's called transportation.
The amount of sediment in a river is called?
it's called the river's load.
How does a river collect sediments?
Most sediment washes or falls into the river as a result of mass movement and runoff. Other sediment erodes from the bottom or sides of the river
How a fossil forms in sediment?
When a river flows into a lake or ocean, the sediments that the river carries settle to the bottom. Layers of sediment may covor the dead organism.
Moving rivers roll heavy materials along the river bottom?
sediment
What is the total quantity of sediment carried by a river called?
The total quantity of sediment carried by a river is called its sediment load. This includes both suspended sediment (particles floating in the water) and bedload (particles rolling or sliding along the riverbed).
What is the bottom of the river?
the bottom of the river is called a bed
What is sediment carried by the river that collect's at the rivers mouth called?
The sediment itself is called silt, and it often is deposited at the mouth of rivers and forms a landform called a river delta.
What is a bottom of a river called?
The bottom of the river is called the river bed.
When water from a river carrias sediment or tiny pieces of sand it leaves some of the sediment along the banks of the river this is called what?
deposition
