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Where do many rivers begin or have their sources in oceans mountains and or lakes?
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∙ 14y ago
Rivers usually start in mountain regions, and flow to the sea. Rivers begin from snow, ice, or glaciers melting from mountains, or from springs rising from the ground, or from the overflow of lakes, or where precipitation is high enough to allow water runoff to form a river and sustain it. Many start in mountainous areas as there is greater rainfall (air rises above mountains, cools, condenses, rains).
Many rivers have their source in areas that are rocky. Often there will be a layer of impermeable rock below the surface and this will force the water to collect within the permeable rock and ground until the ground can hold no more, then it springs a leak, or leaks a spring.
However, DO NOT BELIEVE the general perception that rivers flow from the sea towards inland. That is completely untrue in fact there are no rivers where this happens. Rivers only flow from land to sea or a lake not the other way around but the tide can sometimes temporarily reverse the current.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 14y agoA river is part of the hydrological cycle. Water within a river is generally collected from precipitation through surface runoff, groundwater recharge, springs, and the release of stored water in natural ice and snowpacks (i.e., from glaciers). (Wikipedia) The rivers themselves typically start in mountainous regions and hills and flow downward toward the ocean.
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∙ 13y agoRivers have their sources in upland or mountainous areas.
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∙ 12y agoMany rivers begin in an ocean because after condensation happens then precipitation happens then the holes in the ground are filled then with water so thats how rivers begin
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∙ 11y agolakes, precipitation and seas
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∙ 11y agofrom everywhere
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Where do rivers begin mountains oceans lakes?
they begin usually in the mountains from snow melt, but sometimes their origins are in underground springs. All rivers go to the ocean but never come from the ocean. As for lakes, how do you think the water got there? probably snow melt from a nearby mountain.
Where do many river begin or have there source?
Rivers' sources are the mountains, more from the glaciers that are still on the mountains than from the mountains themselves.
Why do rivers begin from mountains?
Today now there is mountains here was sea and there was sea here was mountains so mountains are main sources of unused water.
What important roles do rivers play in the southeast?
Most rivers begin in the Appalachian mountains or rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Where do most rivers usually begin?
mountains
Which rivers begin in the Appalachian Mountains and empty into the ohio river?
Tennessee and cumberland rivers
What roles do rivers play in the southeast?
Most rivers begin in the Appalachian mountains or rivers flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
Which important south Asian rivers begin high in the himalaya mountains?
Ganges
How do rivers and streams start?
River sources are the rain falling on high ground. Sometimes the runoff flows into streams that flow into rivers. Other times the streams run into lakes that outflow from the lakes is the source of the river. The Nile river is an example of a lake sourced river.
Where do many rivers begin or have their sourdes?
Mountains, because the area is rich in rain, snow melt, or springs.
What two great rivers of India begin in the Himalaya Mountains?
ganga and yamuna. The Ganges and Yamuna or Jumna.
Do all rivers start at the top of a mountaintop?
NO. There are many rivers that begin in countries that have no mountains. Rivers ofter start from a spring that feeds a creek that then joins with other creeks or streams to become a river.
