This is mainly caused by increased soil erosion, which occurs because the vegetation that protected the soil from the actions of moving water on its surface has been removed.

The jet stream which influences the path taken by low-pressure weather systems in the North Atlantic, had followed an abnormally southerly track. Rock type – in drainage basins where the underlying geology consists of relatively soft (and easily eroded) sandstones and clays, the sediment transported consists mainly of sand or clay particles. The river adjusts to its new base level, at first in its lower reaches and then progressively inland.Your initial groupings could be by textbook chapter or topic, for example, and then you could slowly start changing your organization system to include sub-divisions like “I know these already” and “I need to keep working on this pile”. Deposition occurs as the velocity and sediment-carrying capacity of the river decrease on entering the lake and bedload and suspended material are dumped. Attrition – the reduction in the size of fragments and particles within a river due to the processes described above. If the volume of water in the river falls quickly, the load is deposited because of a fall in competence.

Rejuvenation occurs when there is either a fall in sea level relative to the level of the land or a rise of the land relative to the sea.

Hence, navigators like Christopher Columbus discovered continents of the Antarctic, Africa and the Americas. All the while, the algorithm didn’t show you any cards on Haiti, Monserrat or Kobe, that you knew well, so you got up to speed in super quick time! Review the geographic location of these seas, with information about surrounding oceans and countries.

Kinetic energy, or energy due to movement, is generated by the flow of the river which converts potential energy into moving energy. Subdivisions of geography include; human geography, physical geography (or physiography), geomatics, and integrated geography. Following the 2004 floods, additional financial aid was granted for a period of five years – to pay for repairs to infrastructure, water resource management and education. Abrasion – is the scraping, scouring and rubbing action of materials carried along by a river (the load). In this situation the gradient at each point along the river is sufficient to discharge the water and load but there is little excess energy available for further erosion.

The knick point recedes upstream at a rate which is dependent on the resistance of the rocks, and may linger at a relatively hard outcrop. More recently, it has been accepted that the channel may still be graded if it exhibits some irregularities in its long profile.

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The park itself was lowered and shaped to create a floodplain where water could collect naturally instead of rushing downstream through artificial channels to flood Lewisham town centre. Even where meanders are well developed, riffles may occur in the straighter sections of the channel between the meanders. As the temperature drops and the river level falls, the load is deposited as islands of deposition in the channel.