BANK - Side of a river, CANAL - An artificial or man-made river channel, Confluence - Where two rivers or streams meet, Downstream - The direction that the river flows, towards the mouth of the river, Estuary - Occurs near or at the mouth of a river, where the tide meets the current and the fresh and salt waters mix., Gorge - a steep-sided river valley which is very narrow and deep, Oxbow - A small arc-shaped lake formed when a meander is sealed off by deposition, Plain - A large area of nearly flat land which does not have any significant hills, Pollution - Materials that are not supposed to be in the river make it dirty, Rapids - fast-flowing stretches of water formed where the river surface breaks up into waves, Reservoir - an artificial lake created by building a dam across a river, Source - where the stream begins, Tributary - A stream or river that feeds into a larger watercourse, Valley - a long trough in the landscape that has been eroded by a river or a combination of river and glacier action, Waterfall - A place where the river course is interrupted by a tall step, embankment - a raised river bank to prevent flooding, evaporation - the process by which liquid water changes to water vapour when it is warmed, meander - a large bend in a river, precipitation - water in any form which falls to earth. It includes rain, sleet, hail and snow., Severn - longest river in the uk, Nile - longest river in the world, Yangtze - Longest river in asia, amazon - Longest river in south america, Missouri - Longest river in north america, Volga - Longest river in europe,
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