What impact do you think the flooding river will have on the surrounding landscape

 

The impact the flooding river has on the surrounding landscape is that, the loss of trees and vegetation in strategic areas exacerbate what damage can floods cause. Trees, shrubs and grass help protect areas from a flood by moving water. People should be encouraged to use vegetation to break the force of moving flood waters.

In areas where there is severe flooding, basins should be installed near waterways as a temporary receptacle for floodwater. Flash flood causes and effects can be mitigated by a detention basin. When flooding occurs, the floodwater is drained into the basin first giving people ample time to evacuate. Erosion happens at the tops of mountains and under the soil. Water and chemicals get into the rocks and break them up through those mechanical and chemical forces. Erosion in one area can actually build up lower areas. ... As the mountain erodes, the river carries sediment downstream towards the ocean.  The water supply in an area may get polluted from flood water resulting in diseases and epidemic. Many animals die during a flood because their habitats have been destroyed.

Step-by-step explanation

Erosion is an easy idea to understand. If you see a rock, pull it out of a mountain. Then throw it down on the ground. You are now a part of the erosion of that mountain. You have taken a big object (a mountain) and started to make little objects out of it (a rock). When that rock hit the ground, it could have cracked and made some tiny pieces of rock (sand). Erosion is just that easy. When it rains, the same process happens. Rocks are washed down a mountain or down a stream. Soils are washed away. The ocean beats against a cliff and breaks it apart. They are all examples of denudation. Things don't just disappear. The masses of dirt and rock are moved to another form and place. Scientists call it mass wasting. The wasting is the loss of matter in one place. Erosion happens at the tops of mountains and under the soil. Water and chemicals get into the rocks and break them up through those mechanical and chemical forces. Erosion in one area can actually build up lower areas

Therefore mass wasting can happen two ways:

1) mechanical, similar to breaking a rock with a hammer; and

2) chemical, similar to pouring acid on a rock to dissolve it.