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Rivers
Mind map: rivers erosion and deposition
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Rivers
Waterfalls
- Upper course of the river
- Labels
- Hard and soft rock
- Plunge pool
- Cliff
- Overhang
- Erosion moves them back over time
Erosion
- Hydraulic action
- Water pushed into cracks and break the rocks
- Solution
- Acidic water wearing away at the rocks
- Atrition
- Rocks knocking together and wearing each other away
- Abrasion
- Sand and stones scraping away at the bed and banks
- Hydraulic action
Transport
- Load
- Material it carries
- Bedload
- Heavy rocks carried along the bottom
- Suspention
- Small rocks carried along in the water
- Load
Deposition
- Sediment
- Stones and rocks that were deposited as the river
- Can create natural Levees
- Sediment
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- 1st Geography Mind Map on Rivers, created by Zaza Brotzel on 21/05/2016.
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- Zaza Brotzel
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