Watersheds Unit

River Features

Meandering River

Meandering Rivers

• Northern OwensValley, CA

Owens River, CA

Braiding River

• Son-Kul River,

Tien Shan Mtns., Kyrgyzstan

Braided River

Braided stream. 

Tien Shan

Mtns, Kyrgyzstan

V-shaped Valley

V – shaped valley

Rapids

Delta

Delta

• Delta building

into lake. 

SE Alaska.

•Deltas form wherever rivers encounter standing bodies of water

such as lakes or oceans

Delta

Delta and alpine lake Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Alluvial Fan

One Alluvial Fan

• Two Alluvial Fans

Erosion

Water falls

Oxbow Lake

Oxbow Lake

Chippewa River. Eau Claire, Wisconsin

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)

Susquehanna River

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