Test Bite

1. Rivers are usually divided into how many courses?

Two
Three
Four

2. V-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs and waterfalls are usually found in which part of a river?

Starter course
Upper course
Lower-middle course
Upper-middle course
Lower course

3. Which one of these features do you associate with the lower course of a river: meander, delta, oxbow lake?

Meander
Delta
Oxbow lake

4. What is formed where a river in its upper course winds around hard rock forming a series of tapering ridges?

Interlocking spurs
Waterfalls
A V-shaped valley

5. When a river runs over alternating layers of hard and soft rock what is created?

Oxbow lake
Waterfall
V-shaped valley

6. What features are created when a river erodes laterally creating large sweeping bends in the river channel?

Oxbow lakes
Floodplains
Meanders
Levees

7. When alluvium (silt) builds up on the banks of a river, what are formed?

Deltas
Rapids
Floodplains
Levees
Gorges

8. Which of these is not a type or river delta?

Arcuate
Mississippi
Cuspate
Bird's foot

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