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Earth and Human Activity: Earth’s Water Systems
Streams and Rivers - II
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Streams And Rivers - II
Rivers and streams are moving bodies of freshwater that constantly shape the land as they travel. Smaller streams, called tributaries, flow into larger ones, and the meeting point is known as a confluence. Together, a main river and all of its tributaries form a river sys...
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Rivers and streams are bodies of moving freshwater that shape the land as they flow.
Tributaries are smaller streams that flow into larger ones. When two or more tributaries join together, the place where they meet is called a confluence.
A river system consists of a main river and all of its tributaries.
During certain seasons...
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