Rivers / Flowing Water

The repeated process of deposition of river materials & sediments...

• builds levees and become a natural defense against flooding

• destroys levees and lowers the flood plain

• creates a beach

• helps the river to be more efficient

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Levees can be natural and man made

• True
• False

All rivers flow to an _____________________. 

• lake 
• ocean
• mountain
• pond

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

"I am a smaller river joining a larger river" What am I?

• Confluence
• Tributary 
• Drainage Basin
• Watershed

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

• Levee
• Delta
• Floodplain
• Meander

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

In a meander (curve) where you can expect to have sediments deposited?

• Inside the curve
• Outside the curve

The birth of a river, in higher elevations, is called the ...

• mouth

• source

• banks

• bed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The end of a river, at the ocean, is called the ...

• mouth

• source

• banks

• bed

A river usually ends at an ocean or a body of water connected to an ocean.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

All the land that drains into the river, either directly or through its tributaries

• A. Watershed

• B. Discharge

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4