What are the different parts of a river?
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The main parts of a river include a channel, in which the water flows, and a floodplain—a flat region of a valley on either side of the channel. Through the channel and floodplain, water and sediment—material transported by the river, such as sand and silt—are transferred from ridges and mountains to the sea or to a lake. A river starts on hillsides as small channels, or rills. The rills combine to make larger channels or tributaries that eventually come together, forming distinct streams. The largest channels formed by this convergence of tributaries are rivers, and they can carry large quantities of fresh water and sediment across continents.
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boats.\n\n\nAnd water.  Lots of water.
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hills, mountains, creeks, streams or lakes
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wat r trivers? and u can learn about rivers in history. i have a REALLY good social studies teacher who told me that geo and history and very closely related. we learned bout the st lawerence river in history class!\n\nand bout the yangtze river...\nThe Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and third longest in the world. The headwaters of the Yangtze are situated at an elevation of about 16,000 feet in the Kunlun Mountains in the southwestern section of Qinghai. It flows generally south through Sichuan into Yuanan then northeast and east across central China through Sichuan, Hubei, Auhui, and Juangsu provinces to its mouth, 3,720 miles, in the East China Sea north of Shanghai. The river has over 700 tributaries but the principal tributaries are the Hun, Yalong, Jialing, Min, Tuo Jiang, and Wu Jiang. The climate ranges from 96 degrees in the summer to cold, brisk temperatures in the winter. Precipitation is high due to the height of the mountains.  \nChina covers an area of almost 3.7 million square miles and is the most populous country on earth having more than one billion people. The bordering countries include Mongolia, Kazakhstan, India, Nepal, Burma, Vietnam and Korea. The People's Republic is led by Chinese Communist Party and governed by the State Council. The main language spoken is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese but there are more than 150 languages and dialects spoken throughout the country. Approximately 350 million people inhabit the region of the Yangtze. There is plenty of wildlife along the river as well which include the Tibetan antelopes, Mongolian gazelles, and snow leopards, just to name a few.  \n\nWaters of the Yangtze are often used for rice and wheat irrigation. It also has enormous and inexhaustible hydroelectric resources. In 1995 construction began on the Three Gorges Dam near Yichang and is scheduled for completion in 2009. The dam will measure about 600 feet and about 1.5 miles wide. The dam is expected to help control the flooding of the Yangtze River Valley. The Three Gorges (the Qutang Gorge, the Wuxia Gorge, and Xiling Gorge) will also be the largest electricity generating facility in the world. The hydroelectric generators will provide 1/9 of China's total power output. \n\nThere is a lot of controversy surrounding the construction of the dams. There are 140 villages, 1,600 factories and over 80,000 acres of growable land that will be destroyed. It may also cause animals to become extinct. The area is very prone to earthquakes because it lies directly on a fault line. Actually, the plateau and gorges were created by collision of the Indian-Australian plate, drifting northward, with the Eurasian plate that began over 40 million years ago and continues today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n      Snaking its way 6,300 kilometres from western China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River stretches nine provinces and serves as a drain for 695,000 square miles of land.  It is less in length only to the Amazon and Nile, and spans so many regions that it has acquired half a dozen names.  In the high Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tibetans title it Dri Chu—Female Yak River.  The Chinese in the area know it as Tongtian He, Travelling-Through-the-Heavens River.  Where it borders Sichuan and runs through Yunnan, it is referred to as Jinsha Jiang, River of Golden Sand.  Often the word Wanli prefixes the common Chang Jiang (Long River), designating it Ten Thousand Li River. Only in the lower reaches does this great flood go by its name common to foreigners: Yangtze. \n\n        For over two centuries the Yangzte has served as a transportation highway and commercial thoroughfare.  Ocean-going vessels can navigate up the river for 1000 km and steamers can travel as far as Yichang, 1600 km from the sea.  A quarter of China’s ocean-going cargo enters the river between Shanghai and the sea.  Shanghai is known as the gateway to the Yangzte, spanning the Huangpu tributary just south of the
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river\n\nn : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); \n\nIf it didn't have water, I don't think it would be called a river.
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First get a ruler, then go to the river..........
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As a river flows to the sea, it carries huge amounts of sediments from upstream.  These sediments are deposited at the mouth of the river in a fan shaped (triangular) pattern.  Deltas form at the mouth of rivers. Oceans do not have mouths. For example, the Mississippi River delta forms in southern Louisiana where the river ends in the Gulf of Mexico.  The Nile, and the Ganges–Brahmaputra both have large river deltas.\n\nThe delta is a mix of fresh water from the river and salt water from the sea.  Deltas form all over the world, in all climates.  Much of a delta is marshy soil subject to tides and frequent flooding.  This is the habitat for many species of birds, fish, insects, and other animals.  The soil can be very fertile and support a variety of plants and grasses.\n\nTo study the plant and animal life in the delta, pick a particular river, and study it's particular delta.
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river bank ? .. hmm.. maybe their gills... am i smart or am i smart..!! BWHAHAHAH
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Here is a website taken from a book titled "California Rivers and Streams" that does an excellent job of explaining river channel morphology. \nhttp://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6664/6664.ch04.html\n\nIt discusses and explains channel cross sections, channel patterns of both single and multichannel rivers, channel patterns in deltas, and includes both diagrams and a list of references. The book is an excellent resource even if you are not specifically interested in California Rivers.
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Plains, mountains, valleys, beach, escarpment, plateaus, prairie, continent, island, peninsula, delta, canyon, alluvial plain, etc.\n\nThese sites should help with more details..
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You can get details about Yangtze River in following website.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River
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Impossible to answer. No one has ever counted them all and how do you define a river? Here what we define as a river may de called a creek over there.\n\nGod is the only one I know who truely knows the answer to this question.\n\nThe answer would be in the 100,000's though.
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A drainage area is in essence a watershed.\n\nIt is where all the running surface water of an area drains into a common river system.\n\nIf you want something local, other than what you have listed, try Google searching the name of your state with the term 'watershed'. Many times you will find a nice set of maps & lists of the different river basins in your area.\n\nThe Amazon of South America is one of the largest river basins in the world. The Nile river basin is another large one. Both cover a large area & drain most of the worlds fresh running surface water into the oceans. The Mississippi river basin also covers most of the United States & drains into the Gulf of Mexico dumping lots of sediment as it does so.
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Here are some long rivers\n\n1  Nile River (6,690 km) \n2  Amazon (6,452km) \n3  Yangtze (Chang Jiang) (6,380 km) \n5  Mississippi-Missouri (6,270 km) \n5  Ob-Irtysh (5,570 km) \n6  Yenisey-Angara (5,550 km) \n7  Huang He (Yellow) (5,464 km) \n8  Amur (4,410 km) \n9  Congo (4,380 km or 4,670 km). (The source of this river is disputed.) \n10 Lena (4,260 km)
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Dams and levees change the course of rivers.  Farmig, forestry, and suburban development lead to erosion.  Mining can change the forms of mountains.
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If you mean river rapids: water traveling from a higher to a lower elevation over obstacles.  The obstacles cause turbulence in the water called rapids.  Variables are: water volume; rate of elevation drop; size/number of obstacles.
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Nile River\nSahara Desert\nEastern Desert\ncataracts on the Nile in the extreme south\nmarshes around Nile Delta region\nMediterranean Sea