Watersheds Unit River Features. Meandering River.
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Transcript of Watersheds Unit River Features. Meandering River.
Delta
• Delta building
into lake.
SE Alaska.
•Deltas form wherever rivers encounter standing bodies of water
such as lakes or oceans
Mississippi River
It flows throughMontana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,Kansas, Illinois, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Minnesota
Length 6020 kilometres
Number of tributaries250Source Montana, USA. Mouth Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico
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)
Sources
• http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geography/rivers/RiverArticles/rivart.htm
• http://www.uoregon.edu/~millerm/depenv.html
• http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0035488.html