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Erosion

When the river banks are worn away

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Drainage basin

Where the river is drained

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Saltation

When small rocks bounce on the river bed

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Hydraulic action

When the force of the water is very strong causing the river bed to fall off

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Tributary

where small stream that feeds into a river.

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Attrition

When sharp rocks collide, causing them to become smoothe.

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Suspension

When very small particles that flow with water

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Mouth

Where the river enters the sea

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Deposition

When a river loses energy and drops the material it's carrying

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Abrasion

When rocks scrape against the river bank, causing rocks to erode

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Source

Where the start of a river

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Solution

When sediment dissolves into a river turning it into a solution

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Transportation

When sediment is carried by a river

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Load

which sediment is carried by a river

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Watershed

Where the drainage basin ends

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Traction

When stones roll on the river bed

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Bedload

When particles are moved from the river bed across the river through transportation

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Confluence

Where a tributary joins a river

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Suspended load

Which particles carried by the river through suspension

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Sediment

Which particles are carried by the river.

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