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1 Watersheds Unit River Features

2 Meandering River

3 Meandering Rivers Northern OwensValley, CA Owens River, CA

4 Braiding River Son-Kul River, Tien Shan Mtns., Kyrgyzstan

5 Braided River Braided stream. Tien Shan Mtns, Kyrgyzstan

6 V-shaped Valley

7 V – shaped valley

8 Rapids

9 Delta

10 Delta building into lake. SE Alaska. Deltas form wherever rivers encounter standing bodies of water such as lakes or oceans

11 Delta Delta and alpine lake Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

12 Alluvial Fan One Alluvial Fan Two Alluvial Fans

13 Erosion

14 Water falls

15 Oxbow Lake

16 Chippewa River. Eau Claire, Wisconsin

17 Mississippi River It flows through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Minnesota Length 6020 kilometres Number of tributaries250 Source Montana, USA. Mouth Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico

18 Amazon River Continent South America It flows throughPeru, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia Length 6275 kilometres Number of tributaries Over 200 Source Lago Villafro in the Andes Mountains, Peru Mouth Brazil into the Atlantic Ocean (delta)

19 Susquehanna River

20 Sources http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geo graphy/rivers/RiverArticles/rivart.htmhttp://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geo graphy/rivers/RiverArticles/rivart.htm http://www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/depenv. htmlhttp://www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/depenv. html http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclop aedia/hutchinson/m0035488.html


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