Please answer all questions. Thank you! Sediment can be transported in all of th
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Please answer all questions. Thank you!
Sediment can be transported in all of the following ways except bed load (rolled along the bottom of the stream) over sized load (particles that are larger than the carrying capacity of the stream) suspended load (suspended in the water of a stream) dissolved load (dissolved chemically in the water of a stream) A dangerous time to be camping in your tent in a dry stream bed in the mountains is during a irought ight rain udden down pour eat wave n alluvial fan is formed because the streams gradient uddenly increased (got steeper) uddenly decreased (got flatter) uring a flood how do the velocity (speed) and volume change for a river? elocity decreases, volume decreases elocity increases, volume decreases elocity decreases, volume increases elocity increases, volume increasesExplanation / Answer
The sediments can be transported by three types of loads that is bed load which is rolled along the bottom, suspended load which is in suspended form and dissolved load, there is no load like over sized load and hence over sized load is the correct answer.
If we stay in a mountainous area then due to high slope the water will come very fast and since the mountain valleys are not very wide hence in order to accommodate the water, the depth of the water will rise very fast in an event of sudden downpour and hence sudden down pour is correct.
An alluvial fan is formed when the flowing water containing high amount of sediments comes to a flatter slope and since due to flat slope the velocity of the water decreases and which also decreases the kinetic energy of the water and therefore it deposits the sediments as it meets low slope area and hence sudden decrease (got flatter) is correct.
During a period of flood the water and the discharge of the river increases and since discharge is the product of the volume of water flowing and the velocity of the water therefore increase in discharge means increase in both velocity and the volume of water and hence velocity increase and volume increase is the correct answer.