whats a river delta?

Question

my homework is to find out what a river delta is. and i cant find a simple understanderble explanation on search. please can the answer be simple enough for a young teenager. and any websites to back your answer would be apreciated! thanks!

Answer 1

The landform where a river flows into the ocean or sea. Named for its shape.

Answer 2

No websites, just an answer. A river delta is the area downstream on the river that would fill with water if the river flooded. Deltas usually fill with water or mud in the spring during the snow melt or heavy rains. The soil is usually rich in nutrients and makes the best farm land.

Answer 3

A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit) transported by the water and set down as the currents slow. Deltaic deposits of larger, heavily-laden rivers are characterized by the main channel dividing amongst often substantial land masses into multiple streams known as distributaries. These divide and come together again to form a maze of active and inactive channels.

Answer 4

A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit) transported by the water and set down as the currents slow. Deltaic deposits of larger, heavily-laden rivers are characterized by the main channel dividing amongst often substantial land masses into multiple streams known as distributaries. These divide and come together again to form a maze of active and inactive channels.

Answer 5

A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit) transported by the water and set down as the currents slow. Deltaic deposits of larger, heavily-laden rivers are characterized by the main channel dividing amongst often substantial land masses into multiple streams known as distributaries. These divide and come together again to form a maze of active and inactive channels.

Answer 6

A delta is a land-form where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, or lake.

Answer 7

Low-lying plain composed of stream-borne sediments deposited by a river at its mouth.

Deltas have been important to humankind since prehistoric times. Sands, silts, and clays deposited by floodwaters were extremely productive agriculturally; and major civilizations flourished in the deltaic plains of the Nile and Tigris-Euphrates rivers. In recent years geologists have discovered that much of the world's petroleum resources are found in ancient deltaic rocks. Deltas vary widely in size, structure, composition, and origin, though many are triangular (the shape of the Greek letter delta).

Answer 8

Delta-is the place where a river flows into the ocean.It is the meeting place of two bodies of water.River is considered to fresh water where as the ocean is salt water.

Answer 9

all the mud , rocks and stuff that flow out of a river because of erosion from the moving water pile up at the end of the river as the water flow of the river stops carrying them. where the stuff piles up it forms a mass of stuff and that mass of stuff is refered to as a delta. in an ocean it is usually a good place to surf as it forms sand bars for the waves to break on.

Answer 10

The land thus deposited at the mouth of a river.