EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse.

Detailed explanation-2: -A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse. It is produced by a stream or river swinging from side to side as it flows across its floodplain or shifts its channel within a valley.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the river enters the plain it twists and turns forming large bends known as meanders. Due to continuous erosion and deposition along the sides of the meander, the ends of the meander loop come closer and closer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Water is pushed to the outside of a bend, and erodes the curve further, while water on the inside is slower and deposits sediment. This is why you often see sand bars and beaches on the inside of the curve. Due to erosion on the outside of a bend and deposition on the inside, the shape of a meander changes over time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Meander. noun : a turn or winding of a stream.