Contents 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Rivers and Coasts River Structure FOCUS ON The Ganges River River Erosion River Formations FOCUS ON The Colorado River Types of Coasts FOCUS ON The UK Coast Changing Coasts Arches and Stacks FOCUS ON The Twelve Apostles People and Water FOCUS ON The Three Gorges Dam Flooding FOCUS ON Venice Glossary Test Yourself Index 22 23 24 26 28 29 30 31 32
mackenzie mississippi missouri yukon colorado Rivers and Coasts Rivers and coasts are areas where water meets land Water shapes the landscape in many ways cutting away narrow mountain streams and wide curved rivers It forms rocky cliffs and long sandy beaches along coastlines FOCUS ON Colorado River page 14 This map shows the main rivers of the world FOCUS ON Venice page 29 Rivers Channels of freshwater that flow across land are known as rivers They start in high ground and flow downhill to the ocean Rivers gain more water as they flow closer to the sea becoming wider and deeper 4 Amazon Parana Uruguay Water cycle The movement of water from high ground to low ground through rivers is an important part of the water cycle The water cycle is the way in which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back again
5 There are 221,208 miles 356,000 km of coastline on Earth If you laid out every coastline in a straight line it would almost reach from Earth to the Moon Coasts Rough waves and high tides carve different landscapes along the coast The movement and force of water creates many types of coasts such as beaches and cliffs FOCUS ON UK coast page 18 Amur Yellow Danube Ob Yenisei Volga Ganges Yangtze Mekong Nile FOCUS ON Three Gorges Dam page 26 Congo Zambezi FOCUS Ganges River page 8 Darling Murray FOCUS ON Twelve Apostles page 23
