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Draw your own diagram of the formation of a waterfall pg 68

June 2011

V shape valleys and interlocking spurs In the ………..course, the river is …………..and because most its water is in contact with the bed and the…….., there is a lot of ………….. 95% of the river’s …………is used to overcome this friction. A result of this is that the river flows more………… here than in the lowlands. The rest of the river’s energy is used to erode………….., hence the characteristic ……….. of the valley. As the river winds its way down between barriers of the more………….rock, spurs which………..down the valley are formed. large gravity friction Upper energy downwards V-shape resistant fast small Lower interlock banks slowly Answers pg 67