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How can a river erode?

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Answer:

as the water moves faster the water takes sediment from the sides of the banks

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Does every river erode?
yes
How can rivers and streams erode?
Mainly by water frition the water washes up on the shoreline and takes the sand with it, the after time, the river/streams erode.
How do rivers erode their channels?
Yes, they erode their banks and fill in the channels also.
How does a River erode its banks and beds?
Well, A river erodes its bed because of erosion of course!. Its all go to do with Hydraulic actions, abrasion, attrition and soluting working in underlying rivers to erode river beds.
A river's power to erode depends on?
Velocity of the water and then the slope of the bed