Physical characteristics are defining traits or features about your body. These are aspects that are visually apparent, knowing nothing else about the person. The first thing you see when you look at someone could be their hair, clothes, nose, or figure. These are all examples of physical characteristics.

Physical features range from bushveld, grasslands, forests, deserts and majestic mountain peaks, to wide unspoilt beaches and coastal wetlands.

Check out some of the most-impressive physical features found in Africa.

• Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls.
• The Namib. Namib desert.
• East African Rift System. Kenya: Great Rift Valley.
• Congo River. Congo River: hydroelectric dam at Inga Falls.
• The Sahara. sand dunes.
• Lake Victoria.
• Ituri Forest.
• Nile River.

They include berms, mounds, hills, cliffs, valleys, rivers, and numerous other elements. Rivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are not always considered bodies of water, but they are included as geographical formations featuring water.

• Biomes.
• Rivers.
• Mountains.
• Volcanoes.
• Earthquakes.
• Waterfalls.
• Oceans.

A river is an example of a human feature.

key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather. key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop.

Physical features are parts of a landscape, organism, etc., that you can see and touch.

There are many landscape features specifically associated with rivers: V shaped Valleys – particularly in their upper parts, rivers often form V-shaped valleys whereas glaciers commonly form U-shaped valleys. The V-shaped valley is created by erosion. Meanders – the curves or bends of a river.

The river is small and flows quickly. Some features expected in this section of the river are V- shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, a river bed with large rocks and stones,gorges, fast flowing rapids and waterfalls.

The end of a river, the place where the river empties into another body of water, is known as the mouth of the river.

The end of a river is its mouth, or delta. At a river’s delta, the land flattens out and the water loses speed, spreading into a fan shape. Usually this happens when the river meets an ocean, lake, or wetland.

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean.

A stream pool, in hydrology, is a stretch of a river or stream in which the water depth is above average and the water velocity is below average.

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All rivers and streams start at some high point. The high point can be a mountain, hill, or other elevated area. Water from some source like a spring, snow melt, or a lake starts at this high point and begins to flow down to lower points. These streams may slowly join together to form a larger stream or river.