Jason Steinbacher
January 15, 2014
Mrs. Latyn
Parts of a River
There are three main parts of a river; they are the source, the tributaries and the
mouth. First the source drops water from a higher elevation and the river begins. The
river starts out small but then there are tributaries that make the river bigger. (The
Delaware rivers source is in the Catskill Mountains)
With tributaries in mind, tributaries pump water into a river making it wider. It all
depends on this 1. The water volume 2. The water pressure. (The Delaware’s tributary
is the Musconetcong River.)
Last but not least there is the mouth. The mouth is where the river empties into. The
mouth can be a bay or an ocean. When a river gets close to a mouth the river gets
wider and deeper. (The Delaware Rivers mouth is Delaware Bay and the Atlantic
Ocean.)