How Rivers Shape the Landscape

What is the name given to the largest sheet of falling water on the planet?

• The Smoke That Thunders

• Mosi-oa-Tunya

• Victoria Falls

• The Zambezi River

What is the term used to describe a body of water that flows in a channel and uses gravity to move downhill?

• Stream

• River

• Tributary

• Drainage basin

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the term used to describe the lowest level a stream can erode to?

• Base level

• Stream gradient

• Stream load

• Equilibrium

What is the name of the flat area that holds seasonal flood waters created by the Zambezi River?

• Barotse Floodplain

• Alluvial fan

• Floodplain

• Delta

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What determines the shape and roughness of the water in a river?

• Stream load

• Stream gradient

• Velocity of flow

• Equilibrium

What type of rock erodes more quickly than the surrounding rock, creating the Mosi-oa-Tunya waterfall?

• Igneous rock

• Metamorphic rock

• Sedimentary rock

• Basalt

What is the term used to describe the bends or meanders in a river?

• Oxbow lakes

• Terraces

• Floodplains

• Sinuosity

What is the term used to describe the landform that appears at the base of a mountain where sediments are deposited?

• Alluvial fan

• Barotse Floodplain

• Floodplain

• Delta

What determines the stream energy of a river?

• Stream load

• Stream gradient

• Velocity of flow

• Equilibrium

What is the term used to describe the area that a stream drains and all its tributaries?

• Stream system

• Drainage basin

• Watershed

• River system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4