What are the stream channel and the stream banks?

Answer 1

when the river is carrying vast amounts of erdoded material as bedload. as water levels fall and the energy decreases the river drops its coursest material. the rapid deposition of its coursest material begins to block the main channel causing the river to divide into smaller channels that seek to find the way through the obsructing channel

Answer 2

Many streams become faster flowing after heavy rains or the spring melting of winter ice and snow. The fast flowing water can carry large amounts of sand, gravel, and small stones. The flow of water will slow in sections of the stream passing through wide valleys with little downward slope, allowing the sediment to settle to the streambed. This sediment will start to block the stream, slowing the water even more until enough settles to the bottom to form sandbanks or shoals that block the stream. The stream will then overflow its banks and make new channels. The stream may split into many separate channels that join together only to split apart again farther downstream. The many interconnected channels of braided streams, when viewed from above, look like strands a braid.

Answer 3

The stream channel is the body of water flowing between the two land banks which constrain the stream's movement. The line connecting the deepest points of the channel is known as the Thalweg.

Answer 4

Braided rivers are formed when sediment and gravel are carried down the river and deposited to form flat basins between the mountains and coastal plains.