Anyone knows?
2006-07-25 01:38:22 · 10 answers · asked by Eve W 3 in Environment
Aging rivers? There are many rivers out there that have been around a long time. The life of a river depends on its surroundings. When rivers start, they're usually very small. Since all that water is continuously pouring over the same rocks, the river gradually expands, eroding the rock around it.
Rivers don't have an age limit to them, but many things can stop the river's existence. the sun could dry it up. The source could get dammed or dry up. Another river could form from it, causing the water not to flow in the previous direction. The river could expand into another body of water (or the body of water could flood into the river), thus becoming part of that instead of its own river.
2006-07-25 01:49:43 · answer #1 · answered by M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rivers don't have to reach 'old age'. They are natural resources of the Earth, just like oceans, mountains, prairies, wetlands, prairies, swamps, grasslands, and polar ice caps. Left to their own devices, these natural resources continuously refresh and renew themselves.
It's only when MAN decides he knows better, and chooses to pollute our streams and rivers that they become clogged with human waste and garbage. That's when rivers get old and die.
It's a shame we don't take better care of our natural resources. Whether it was purely a gigantic evolutionary process of sheer coincidence, or an intelligent designer, or Nature, or God - man was given dominion over all other things on this green Earth. That didn't mean we were supposed to plunder and squander these resources for our own gluttony; it meant that we were put here to protect and preserve the delicate ecological balance between man, plants, and all other animals so that we could all co-exist and survive on this planet as Nature intended. -RKO-
2006-07-25 12:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it gets stronger and deeper. or it dries out. depends on the fount. and depends on the land the river is flowing through. dry land. too much heat. might be a metapher for life, growing older and wisdom. some do get wise, some don't. depends on where you come from and what you experience in life. results are not the same...
hey, nice question!
2006-07-25 08:57:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It drys up like a grape turning into a raisin
2006-07-26 14:17:11 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It widens, dry out, or continue to be a river..
2006-07-25 08:42:46 · answer #5 · answered by Scorpion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HE DIES,good old man
2006-07-25 08:45:00 · answer #6 · answered by sandy v 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My contribution of tears is stopped.
2006-07-25 09:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by Eco-Savvy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gets more curves
2006-07-25 14:10:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It dries up?
2006-07-25 08:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by PixelWire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it mates with the sea!!!!......................... :D
2006-07-25 08:42:20 · answer #10 · answered by taureanboy90 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋