Multiple choice

Meanders are present in the running water regimes. During which of the following do these meanders develop?

  1. When streams flow over the original slopes.

  2. When stream divides are broad and flat with marshes, swamp and lakes.

  3. When the valleys are still V-shaped but deep and trunk streams are broad enough to have wider floodplains.

  4. When the flat and broad inter stream areas, swamps and marshes disappear, and the stream divides turn sharp.

  5. When divides are broad and flat with lakes, swamps and marshes.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer, meanders if present develop over these broad upland surfaces. These meanders may eventually entrench themselves into the uplands and waterfalls and rapids may exist where local hard rock bodies are exposed.

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