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Class 8 Geo Lesson 8

1) The document summarizes key points from a geography lesson about river landforms. It discusses meanders, oxbow lakes, floodplains, levees, braided streams, deltas, and estuaries. 2) Students were instructed to complete an activity in Google Classroom about river landforms within 5 minutes and return to the meeting. 3) The concluding slides define an estuary as the area where a river meets the sea, and clarify that a river mouth is simply where a river empties into a larger body of water, while an estuary is a partly enclosed area where fresh and salt water mix, containing at least one river mouth.

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Class 8 Geo Lesson 8

1) The document summarizes key points from a geography lesson about river landforms. It discusses meanders, oxbow lakes, floodplains, levees, braided streams, deltas, and estuaries. 2) Students were instructed to complete an activity in Google Classroom about river landforms within 5 minutes and return to the meeting. 3) The concluding slides define an estuary as the area where a river meets the sea, and clarify that a river mouth is simply where a river empties into a larger body of water, while an estuary is a partly enclosed area where fresh and salt water mix, containing at least one river mouth.

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Welcome Class 8 geography: Lesson 8

• SLO: to understand the formation of


Take necessary notes while listening to different landforms by the rivers
the lecture
Mute your microphone and leave your • Topic 1 B: Drainage System
queries in the chat box
Log into Google classroom and keep • Page no. 126-27 (old version)
that window open
Meanders

Middle course
river features Oxbow lakes

include:

Floodplains & levee

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Floodplain & Levee
• A floodplain is an area of land
adjacent to a stream or river which
stretches from the banks of its
channel to the base of the
enclosing valley walls, and which
experiences flooding during periods
of high discharge.
• A levee, dike, embankment or
foodbank is an elongated naturally
occurring ridge or artificially
constructed fill or wall that
regulates water levels. It is usually
earthen and often parallel to the
course of a river in its floodplain or
along low-lying coastlines.

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GC activity: 5 minutes

1 2 3
Go to google classroom and Label it and submit within 5 Return to zoom meeting
find one activity titled as River minutes window upon submission.
landform

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Answer

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Braided stream

Lower course
river features Deltas

include:

Estuary

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Braided stream

• As a river reaches the mouth, it may


lose energy. If this occurs, sediment is
deposited and builds up to choke the
main channel. This makes the river split
and is known as braiding.

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Delta
• A delta forms if the waves and the tide cannot
carry all of the material away.
• Formation of a delta:
• A river carrying sediment reaches the sea or a
lake.
• It loses energy and deposits material.
• The sediment may be sorted as the heaviest
material is deposited first.
• Over time, more and more sediment is added.
• If the tides are strong enough the sediment
will be washed away. If not, it will build up a
land mass (delta) at the mouth of the river.

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Delta
• Moribund delta is characterised by dead or
decaying rivers which have lost connection with the
main channels

• The mature delta comprises the saline, non-


forested areas in the northern part of Khulna

• The active delta is situated mainly at the estuary


of the Meghna river entering the Bay of Bengal
(Bhola, Hatiya, Sandwip, etc). Regular flooding and
formation of chars and offshore islands are its
characteristics

• Tidally active delta is dominated by


coastal tidal waves and currents.

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Estuaries

• An estuary is where the river meets the sea.


The river here is tidal and when the sea
retreats the volume of the water in the
estuary is less reduced. When there is less
water, the river deposits silt to
form mudflats which are an important
habitat for wildlife.

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• A river mouth is simply the point or
So are estuaries general area where a river empties into a
and river larger body of water; either a lake or the
sea.
mouth the • An estuary is a partly enclosed body of
water where fresh water from one or
same? more rivers and salt water from the sea
mix. Every estuary forms or contains at
least one river mouth.

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End of lesson 8
Thank you

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