Lower Stage

Question 1

What is the gradient like in the lower stage

Answer 1

Flatter

Question 2

What do meanders create in the lower stage

Answer 2

Create a wide flat floor with floodplains and levees

Question 3

What are 2 key things in the lower stage and what are they caused by

Answer 3

Floodplains and levee
And they are caused by deposition

Question 4

Floodplain

Answer 4

Land on either of a river in the lower stage that is likely to flood when a river breaks its banka

Question 5

What makes the valley wide and flat

Answer 5

The meander eroding laterally

Question 6

Levees

Answer 6

Banks that form when rivers flood

Question 7

What causes levees

Answer 7

When a river Breaks its banks, the heaviest material is deposited nearest the channel and silt is carried across the floor plain. repeating floods leads to building up levees and acting as a natural flood defence 

Question 8

Levees build up during

Answer 8

Flood

Question 9

Levees create a new

Answer 9

River level

Question 10

River can still flood above

Answer 10

The floodplain