What connects headwaters to the actual river?
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Nothing. The river just flows from it. If it has multiple sources or headwaters, however, then the actual river flows from the largest or main source, and is connected to the other headwaters through tributaries.
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Try this site, it has some links of the park and surrounding areas: http://borntoexplore.org/river/attractions.htm
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The mighty Mississippi River which is derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning 'big river'.  River length is a difficult measurement to pin down because the river channel is constantly changing. For example, staff at Itasca State Park, the Mississippi's headwaters, say the Mississippi is 2,552 miles long. The US Geologic Survey has published a number of 2,300 miles (3,705 kilometers), the EPA says it is 2,320 miles long, and the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area maintains its length at 2,350 miles.
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river\n\nn : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); \n\nIf it didn't have water, I don't think it would be called a river.
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/yangtze.htm\nhttp://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/Yangtze.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River
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Type in Mississippi River on your yahoo search bar and it will bring up several places to search. The one that says Mississippi River is a good one it tell where the river starts and ends. Also tell how long it is ect. Lots of Info there. See for yourself biology.usgs.gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/ms137.htm
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Typically, headwaters only experience recharge, but a local depression in the land surface can create a window into the groundwater, usually in the form of a lake or swamp.  Water here can flow downstream, and thus can add to discharge.
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A waterway is any navigable body of water. These include rivers, lakes, oceans, and canals.\n\nAn aqueduct is an artificial (man-made) channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The word is derived from the Latin aqua, "water," and ducere, "to lead." Many aqueducts are raised above the landscape, resembling bridges rather than rivers. Sufficiently large aqueducts (water bridges) may also be usable by ships. They are similar to viaducts, though they carry water instead of a road or railway. While a road bridge often carries the roadway at a more elevated level than the rest of the road, such a variation of height is not possible for an aqueduct.\n\nreform question
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The winding nature of many river channels is called meandering, also referred to as sinuosity. The sinuosity of a river is not just the result of water taking the easiest path. There are many internal and external factors that determine the overall channel pattern. To some extent there is still debate within the science about what factors are most important.  There are mathematical formulas that can be used to compare different rivers, but they are not quite good enough to actually explain all the variables yet. \n\nIf you look at a map you will see that the sinuosity of a river has a predictable wavelength (length of a full turn) and amplitude (width of a meander across the river flood plain), so it is clearly not a random process. One useful formula that relates the bankfull discharge of a river to its meander wavelength is the following:\n\nLength of meander=L\nBankfull discharge (volume of the river)= Qb\n\nL=54.3 (square root of Qb)\n\nThe factors that affect the size of meanders that are external to the river are things like the type and density of vegetation along the river bank, the type of material in the river bed and bank, the overall volume and variability of the river volume, and the overall gradient of the river. The higher the gradient the less likely a river will meander. Rivers that meander widely are typically flowing across a river-deposited flood plain of sand, silt and clay materials, but because these materials are not always deposited evenly the inconsistency will affect the river channel migration. Along many meandering rivers there are forests growing, and as trees fall into the rivers they can have major effects on the current flow.  \n\nThe internal factors probably have much more to do with the strong tendency of rivers to meander (at least that is my opinion) and create the regularity of meanders. Small oscillations within flowing water creates alternating bed profiles along the length of most rivers. These alternating bed profiles correspond to higher and lower gradients resulting in faster and slower speeds of flow.  These two bed profiles are known as riffles and pools. The riffles are typically spaced about 5-7 times the width of the river apart, along the length of the river and usually have bottom sediments of the largest size found in the river (more gravel, cobbles, etc). Turbulence in the river created by these variations in the bottom of the river creates cyclone-like spirals of water that will both erode the bottoms of pools and when they diverge they will build bars and riffles in the middle of the channel. \n\nThis internal turbulence also causes bank erosion, and once it begins it is self-perpetuating. As the meander begins to form, the water moving along the outside of the meander actually piles up, causing more bank erosion, and the higher speed of the water along the outside of the meander also allows the water to erode and carry more material. Meanwhile, the inside of the meander is the slowest moving water and will deposit material, building a sand bar, also called a point bar.\n\nThe meanders eventually reach a limit of size (amplitude) either when they encounter the edge of the flood plain and bedrock, or when they get so wide they begin to intersect each other. As this happens the river will cut them off forming an oxbow. Other times at flood stage a river will scour away the point bars and abandon its own meanders until flow returns to normal and the process of building meanders starts anew. \n\nHere is a good resource with some illustrations of the process:\nhttp://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6664/6664.ch04.html
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Rivers empty into major bodies of water...tributaries empty into rivers
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By far, the Middle Fork of the Salmon.  The Main Salmon, Selway, and Bruneau (if the water level holds) are also top notch trips.
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Dear, we don't know which "riverfront" you're referring to. \n\nWhy don't you look it up on a search engine?
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The "official" source is the outlet at the northern end of Lake Itasca, Minnesota; there is a nice monument there, and you can wade across the river on stepping stones. \n\nBut it is in fact possible to go upstream from Lake Itasca, as a number of streams, mostly unnamed, empty into the basin.
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I would guess the Colorado River...Grand Canyon.
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A hydrograph shows the flow in a stream over time.  The shape might be described as "peak and trough" line graph.  Here's a quick website to look at for an example of a hydrograph:\n\nhttp://mrbdc.mnsu.edu/major/midminn/subshed/sevenmi/vtour/hydrograph.html
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yes.  a river will flow from higher terrain to lower terrain, independent of the compass direction.  two rivers near where i live that flow north are the Red River of the north (North Dakota/ Minnesota border) and the Nemadji River (northwest Wisconsin).
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There are sections of the river (in Quebec) where the tides cause the river to flow upstream.  This still happens today.