FORCE OF MOVING WATER

WORK AND ENERGY

• A rivers water has energy.
• As gravity pulls water down a slope.
• It has potential energy.
• It changes to kinetic energy.
• This makes work.

WHAT IT DOES?

• All along a river moving water has effects.
• It moves sediments from mountain to sea.
• It erodes banks and valleys.

HOW DOES IT ERODE?

• In the process...
• It picks up and moves sediments.
• Most sediment washes or falls into a river.
• This is a effect of mass movement...or
• Runoffs

SEDIMENT INCLUDES???

• Soil
• Rock
• Clay
• Sand
• :)