River Notes

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Rivers and Streams
Write Everything in PURPLE!!
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Rivers vs. Streams
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How a V-shaped Valley Forms Link to web
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V-shaped Valley
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Cut Bank and Point BarIdentify each of them in
the picture below
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Cutbank point bar

• Point bar sediments get deposited
• cutbank sediments get eroded

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Young Rivers

• Generally straight, narrow course of the river.
• Waterfalls
• Niagara Falls

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Old Rivers

• Generally flat areas
• Wide flood plains
• Meanders
• Owens Valley, CA

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Meandering River Can you find the old meanders
in the picture?
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Oxbow Lake http//www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_
details.aspx?wpgcqv5mhttp//www.sln.org.uk/geogr
aphy/oxbow Oxbow lake and Chippewa River,
Wisconsin
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Alluvial FansDeath Valley, CA
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Delta (no not the airline)Mississippi DeltaThe
mouth of a river where sediments get deposited
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Flood Plain
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What happens when you build a city on a flood
plain?
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Cincinnati 1997
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Cincinnati 1997
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Newport Ky
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Newport, KY (across the river)
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Dayton/Bellevue, KY 1997
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Natural Levee
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Levee Break