St Ivo School Geography Department: Rivers Crossword
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The process by which rocks get smaller and more rounded as they hit against each other
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Floodplains and Levees occur in this part of the river's course
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An example of a major flood that occured in Devon in 1952
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A type of transport in which large rocks are rolled along the river bed
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A type of erosion in which minerals from rocks are dissolved by the river water or a type of transport in which minerals are carried along dissolved in the water
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A process of erosion by which rocks and boulders scrap away at the river banks and bed
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This occurs when a river loses its energy
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These are natural embankments formed at the sides of a river due to deposition
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This feature is formed by erosion on the outer bank of a meander
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This feature is a bend in the river
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An example of flooding in an LEDC - major floods occured here in 1998
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The river will do this when it can no longer hold water within its banks
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This feature is left behind when a meander bend is cut off from the main channel
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This is a process of transport by which material is bounced along the river bed
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A slip off slope forms on this bank of a meander
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When a river floods there is an increase in this, which then results in deposition
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A feature found in the upper course of a river where there are alternating bands of hard and soft rock.