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Rivers

Year 7 🏔️ Physical Geography River features, processes of erosion, transportation, and deposition.

Rivers shape the land through erosion, transportation, and deposition.

Hydraulic action (force of water), abrasion (material scraping), attrition (particles wearing each other down), solution (dissolving rock).

Traction (rolling), saltation (bouncing), suspension (carried in water), solution (dissolved).

Steep gradient, fast flow, V-shaped valleys, waterfalls, potholes, interlocking spurs.

Gentle gradient, slow flow, meanders, oxbow lakes, floodplains, deltas.

Key Process

Velocity ∝ gradient → faster flow = more erosion. Slower flow = deposition.

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