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16. WHAT MAKES A WATERFALL?

When a stream or river plunges over a wall of rock called a cliff or a recipice, we have a waterfall. If the waterfall is of great size, it is called a cataract. Where the rock wall is steeply slanted rather than vertical, the rushing water is called a cascade.

Sometimes in a cascade, the water descends in a whole series of steep slopes.