NHTW 1 Rivers - lit group

What is the term for a view of the earth’s surface and its features (landforms)?

• Drainage basin

• Landscape

• Erosion

• Confluence

What is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries called?

• Tributary

• Confluence

• Drainage basin

• Deposition

What is a smaller river that joins a bigger one called?

• Erosion

• Tributary

• Transportation

• Landscape

Where does a tributary join a larger river?

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Confluence

• Transportation

What is the term for the wearing away of the land by moving forces such as wind, rivers, waves, or glaciers?

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Landscape

What is the movement of eroded material by wind, rivers, waves, or glaciers called?

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Confluence

• Drainage basin

What is the dropping of transported material when wind, rivers, waves, or glaciers slow down called?

• Erosion

• Confluence

• Deposition

• Landscape