River Systems

The start of a river is called the what?

• River summit

• Headwaters

• River start

• River mouth

A river starts very small before getting larger. What is the name given to a small river that joins a larger river?

• Confluence
• Tribunal
• Tributary
• Joiner

A meander is best described as ...

• A straight section of the river.
• A winding section of a lake.
• A section of the river that joins another river.
• A winding section of a river.

When the bends of a Meander get close enough they can join, creating a new river path. What is left is called ...

• An oxback lake
• An oxen lake
• An oxcart lake
• An oxbow lake

"When rocks scrape along the river bank and bed" is what type of erosion?

• Attrition
• Abrasion
• Solution
• Hydraulic Action

I am the land that gets flooded when the river overflows. What am I?

• Levee
• Delta
• Floodplain
• Meander

In a meander, where can you expect to have erosion and thus the formation of the cutbank?

• Inside the curve

• Outside the curve

What is the name of the point where a river ends?

• Tributary
• Water Shed
• Confluence
• Mouth 

What is a delta?

• Area of water
• fan shaped mass of material deposited at the mouth of a stream
• slope of land
• sediments deposited at a river

An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river is called a 

• delta
• mouth
• divide
• levee