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What is Erosion |
It wears away the river bed and banks. Also, breaks up the rocks that carried by the water. |
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What is hydraulic action? |
The sheer power of water as it smashes against the river bank. Air becomes trapped in the cracks of the river bank causing the rocks to break apart. |
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What is abrasion? |
When pebbles grind along the river bank and bed in a sand-papering effect. |
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What is attrition? |
When rocks that the river is carrying knock against each other. The break apart to become smaller and more rounded. |
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What is solution? |
When the water dissolves certain types of rocks, e.g Limestone |
