Multiple choice

The extensive food plain with level to gentle slopes (2o to 5o) and very low channel gradient makes the river so sluggish that it becomes a tangled network of interconnected diverging and converging shallow channels. Such a flood plain is said to be

  1. Braided

  2. Graded

  3. Entrenched

  4. Meandered
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Explanation

A braided river consists of a network of small channels separated by temporary islands called braid bars. This occurs when a river has a high sediment load and low gradient, causing it to constantly choke its own channel and split into multiple paths.

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