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What countries does the Amazon river flow through?
What countries does the Mississippi river flow through? |
The amazon river flows through Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.
The Mississippi flows through the USA. |
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What is the difference between a river basin and a catchment area?
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A river basin is the portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries and a catchment area is all the land from the mountain to the seashore drained by a single river and all its tributaries.
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What is a Meander?
What is a River? |
A meander is a bend or loop in a streams course.
A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel o the sea, lake or another stream. |
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What countries does the Danube flow through?
What countries does the Murray darling flow through? |
The Danube river flows through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania.
The Murray Darling flows through Australia. |
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What countries does the Nile river flow through?
What countries does the Ganges river flow through? What countries does the Yellow river flow through? |
The Nile river flows through Egypt, Sudan and Uganda.
The Ganges river flows through India. The Yellow river flows through China. |
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What countries does the Yangtze river flow through?
What countries does the Mekong river flow through? |
The Yangtze river flows through China.
The Mekong river flows through China, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. |
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What is a delta?
What is a confluence? |
A delta is triangular sandbanks that stop the water from coming too quickly into the ocean which could cause a flood or a tsunami.
A confluence is where the original river and a tributary river meet. |
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What is a tributary?
What is the difference between a natural levee and an unnatural levee? |
A tributary is a smaller river joining the original river and tributes more water to the original river.
One is created by nature and the other is man made a sandbag is an unnatural levee and a low ridge is a natural levee. |
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What is the river mouth?
What is erosion? |
A river mouth is the part of the river that flows into the ocean.
Erosion is the gradual wearing away of earth surfaces through the action of wind and water. |
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What is an oxbow lake?
What is a water shed? |
A crescent shaped body of water formed from a single loop that was cut off from a meandering stream.
A water shed is an area of ridge of land that separates water flowing to different river, basins or seas. |
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What is a channel?
What is a back swamp? |
A channel is water that separates two pieces of land from each other.
A back swamp is the lower, poorly drained area of a floodplain that retains water. |
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What is a source?
What is a Estuary? |
A source is where the water comes from the starting point of a stream or river.
A estuary is the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream. |
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What is a Alluvium?
What is Silt? |
A alluvium is sediment that is deposited by running water.
A silt is fine earthly particles that are smaller than sand and carried by moving water and deposited as sediment. |
