Discussion
The river with meagre source of water that is left after the river capture is known as ...........
Answer: D
The stream left with little water after river capture is a misfit river.
In river capture, a more actively eroding stream (the captor or pirate) cuts back into the basin of a neighbour and diverts its headwaters. The neighbour below the point of capture is beheaded: it keeps its old valley but loses most of its water, so it becomes too small for the valley it flows in, a misfit stream.
The captor river is the one that gains the water, and the captured portion is the headwater diverted into it, so neither is left short of water. A rejuvenated river is one whose erosive power has been renewed, which happens to the captor at the elbow of capture, not to the beheaded stream.
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