Rivers
A river is the moving body of water that flows toward an ocean, lake, or another river. The place where a river begins is called the "source".
Rivers usually flow out from a spring, or snowmelt. Rivers flow sometimes for kilometres, until they reach the mouth, or the place where it joins another body of water. The land surrounding a river is called the bank, and the bottom of the river is called a bed. A channel is an area that contains the flowing water with banks on each side, it is usually a groove in the land that a river flows along. At the mouth of the river there is usually a Delta or a flat area of silt surrounding the area where the river branches off.
Rivers usually flow out from a spring, or snowmelt. Rivers flow sometimes for kilometres, until they reach the mouth, or the place where it joins another body of water. The land surrounding a river is called the bank, and the bottom of the river is called a bed. A channel is an area that contains the flowing water with banks on each side, it is usually a groove in the land that a river flows along. At the mouth of the river there is usually a Delta or a flat area of silt surrounding the area where the river branches off.
Most rivers have tributaries, or other rivers the branch off from it. The place where two rivers meet is called a confluence. Some of the largest river in the world are the Amazon River, Nile River, Mississippi River, and Yangtze rivers, rivers are important to us. They give us food and water and make it easier for us to transport goods. Rivers can provide easy borders for states, territories, and countries. They often provide recreation. The Nile River is 6,650 km long while the Amazon river is 6,400 km.
streams
Streams a small, flowing bodies of freshwater. The streams are fed by rain, melting snow and ice, groundwater order that penetrates deeper into the earth after the surface soil is completely soaked. Streams usually follow a course of least resistance with their environment, gravity pulls it down hill. They run and other streams, lakes, all the ocean streams are also known as creeks, rivulet, rennells, Brooks or even drains. What's your Coldstream might depend on where you live.
Streams vary in size from tiny rills or streamlets, to larger brooks, and creeks. They are smaller than rivers and are tributaries to rivers. Some streams always have water moving through them. Other streams might only have water in them during certain times of the year or after heavy rain. Dry stream beds look like crevices in the ground filled with rocks.
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