Rivers and Streams Assessment D126

What is the term used for a stream that flows into another stream?

• Tributary

• Oxbow Lake

• Delta

• Meander

What is the process called by which materials are deposited by a river?

• Deposition

• Discharge

• Solution

• Velocity

What term describes the steepness of a river?

• Slope

• Load

• Bed Load

• Capacity

What is the term for a fan-shaped deposit that forms when a river flows into a quiet body of water?

• Delta

• Oxbow Lake

• Meander

• Tributary

What is the term used when a river winds back and forth in broad curves?

• Meandering

• Rivulet

• Streamlining

• Bifurcation

What type of body of water forms when deposits separate a meander from its river?

• Oxbow lake

• Lagoon

• Bay

• Estuary

Erosion is more rapid on which bend of a meander?

• Outside

• Inside

• Upper

• Lower

Deposition typically occurs on which bend of a meander?

• Inside

• Outside

• Upper

• Lower

A straight and deep channel that is wide and deep would have what compared to a winding shallow channel?

• Greater velocity

• Lesser velocity

• Same velocity

• Variable velocity

The larger the slope angle of a stream or river, the _______ the speed of the water flow.

• deposition

• Slower

• Same

• Faster