River Courses

This feature appears in the middle or lower course and has flat areas of land on both sides of the river. What feature is this?

• Levees

• Braiding

• Gorges

• Flood Plain

This feature appears in the upper course and occurs when waters approaches alternate bands of hard and soft rocks. What feature is this?

• Gorges

• Rapids

• Interlocking Spurs

This feature appears in the middle or lower course and is a cut off from meanders when current would slow down either at the entry or exits of the meanders. What feature is this?

• Meanders

• Levees

• Ox bow lakes

This feature appears in the middle or lower course and is where the river divides into 2 or more channels because it is separated by islands of sediment. What feature is this?

• Levees

• Flood Plain

• Braiding

This feature appears in the upper course and is a result of pebbles moving in a circular movement after being trapped by currents in the river beds. What feature is this?

• Gorges

• Potholes

• Interlocking Spurs

This feature appears in the upper course and is the result of a sudden change in the course of a river. It leads an overhang by hard rock where water would be plunging off from. What feature is this?

• Rapids

• Interlocking Spurs

• Waterfalls

This feature appears in the upper course and occurs after vertical erosion would occur continuously. Loose rock also begins to fall from the sides after being eroded by boulders. What feature is this?

• Interlocking Spurs

• V shaped valley

• Gorges

This feature appears in the middle or lower course where heavy materials are deposited near the river. Sometimes these are strengthened by engineers. What feature is this?

• Interlocking Spurs

• Gorges

• Levees

This feature appears in the lower course of the river where sediments are being deposited at the mouth of the river. What feature is this?

• Braiding

• Deltas

• Flood Plains

This feature appears in the upper course where the outside banks of meanders are eroded leaving sloping features on the inside of the meanders. What feature is this?

• V shaped valley

• Meanders

• Interlocking Spurs