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rivers - Coggle Diagram
rivers
water cycle
evaporation
water from ocean evaporates into air that goes up
condensation
gas turns into liquid and suspended in air
precipitation
liquid comes down from clouds in different forms
surface runoff
water comes down and runs off land and mountains
infiltration
water soaks into the ground and some comes up
groundwater
water goes through rocks and gets filtered and gets clean
transpiration
water gets into plants and once water reaches leaves, it evaporates
and repeat
courses of a river
middle course
very wide
tributaries
water moves abit slow
confluence
erosion on sides
creates ox bowlakes
lower course
moves slowest
widest
muddy
water is slightly warmer
alot of flooding
floodplains
upper course
water moving downhill
rapids
flows through V shaped valley(sometimes)
more erosion on ground
parts of a river
mouth
empties into another bigger body of water
lake
ocean
bigger river
source
from a head water
rainfall
snowmelts in mountains
springs/underground water
pond, lake
how we use a river
people in the area
fishing
swiming
the town
trash dumping
sewage