Streams and Rivers

What river feature does this image show?

• Meander
• Oxbow Lake
• Tributary
• Headwaters

Bits of eroded rock are called

• Divides
• Runoff
• Sediment
• Levees

The process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a land form or land mass.

• erosion
• deposition
• mouth
• divide

An area which drains into a common river system.

• watershed
• tributary
• drainage divide
• riparian zone

If this is steep, it can make water in a river go very fast downhill.

• slope
• mouth
• meander
• riverbank

It can take thousands of years but a river can carve a _____________ into rocks.

• source
• slope
• canyon
• slope

Which term most accurately describes the way in which rivers change landscapes ?

• Chemically
• Superficially 
• Suddenly 
• Gradually 

Where do the ends of most rivers go ?

• Deserts 
• Mountains
• Lakes
• Oceans

Mature Rivers erode its channel...

• Wider
• Narrower
• Gigantic 
• Deeper

As the current in a stream becomes stronger, what will happen to its erosional power?

• it will increase
• it will decrease
• it will stay the same
• it will increase then decrease