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Rivers
1st Year
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Erosion | wearing away of landscape |
| Hydraulic Action | force of moving water breaks off material from banks and bed of river |
| Transportation | moving or carrying of the Rivers Load |
| Deposition | Dropping of Rivers Load |
| Course | the route the river takes to the sea |
| watershed | the high ground that separates one river basin from another |
| Estuary | part of river mouth that is tidal |
| Youthful River | Upper Stage |
| Mature River | Middle Stage |
| Old River | Lower Stage |
| Attrition | material is worn down as particles bounce off each other |
| Solution | acids in water dissolve rocks |
| Features of Youthful River | Waterfall, Interlocking Spurs, V Shaped Valley |
| Vertical Erosion | Cutting down into riverbed |
| Interlocking Spurs | series of ridges that jut out from both sides of a young river valley |