Discussion
When the river enters the plain, it bends and flows forming large bends known as-
Answer: C
The large bends are called meanders.
On reaching the plains the river's slope falls and it flows slowly, swinging from side to side in wide loops. These loops are meanders, named after the winding Menderes river in Turkey.
An oxbow lake forms later, when a meander loop is cut off from the main channel. A floodplain is the flat land built up by deposits when the river overflows, and levees are the raised banks formed by those deposits along the channel.
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