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Info 4: Measuring the slope

Measuring the Slope - The gradient of the river decreases as the stream order increases.

The gradient of the river decreases as the stream order increases with the steepest channel being found in the hilly source region of the river.

This pattern supports the textbook theory of the long profile of a river.