The river moves material as bedload, suspended load, or dissolved load. What is the general term for this movement of material?

The river moves material as bedload, suspended load, or dissolved load. What is the general term for this movement of material?

• A. Suspension
• B. Weathering
• C. Transportation
• D. Hydrological Cycle

Answer: (C)

The movement of material by a river is transportation. This term covers how sediment and dissolved substances are moved by the flow from one place to another. It includes bedload, which rolls or slides along the river bed; suspended load, where finer particles are carried within the water column; and dissolved load, where minerals are dissolved in the water and move invisibly. Weathering is the breakdown of rocks at the source, erosion is the removal of material, and the hydrological cycle is the global movement of water—not the specific transport of sediment within a river. So transportation best describes all the ways river material is moved.

The movement of material by a river is transportation. This term covers how sediment and dissolved substances are moved by the flow from one place to another. It includes bedload, which rolls or slides along the river bed; suspended load, where finer particles are carried within the water column; and dissolved load, where minerals are dissolved in the water and move invisibly. Weathering is the breakdown of rocks at the source, erosion is the removal of material, and the hydrological cycle is the global movement of water—not the specific transport of sediment within a river. So transportation best describes all the ways river material is moved.