Question: Draw an arrow to show which direction the water flows in the river. (Rose Mountain is on the left and Happy Valley is on the right in the drawing.) Why do you think the water flows in that direction?
Reference answer: Water will always flow downhill (mountain to valley).

Student answer: The river dries as it gets to the mountains.

Student answer: It flows that way because you cannot make a river flow uphill.

Student answer: Because it starts between a valley and mountains and goes the opposite direction.

Student answer: Because it flows down from the mountains.

Student answer: I think the water flows that way because it is going from happy valley to the river.

Student answer: Why is that the water flows down away from the mountain.

Student answer: Because it is big at beginning then slowly gets smaller and branches out.

Student answer: Because it goes happy valley then the river.

Student answer: Because it does not go into the mountain.

Student answer: The river flows from biggest to smallest. That is why.

Student answer: Because rivers sometimes end in valleys.

Student answer: The delta.

Student answer: Because the water flow to the basin which is the rose mountains.

Student answer: It flows in that direction because the water is going high land to low land.

Student answer: Maybe because the mountains are that way, or there are cracks and the water goes through.

Student answer: Because the mountain is the highest peak and water flows downhill.

Student answer: I think that because the water flows down from the mountain first.

Student answer: Because there are little slots that take them that way.

Student answer: I think it flows that way because rivers usually flow from valleys into mountains.

Student answer: I think the water flows in that direction because the river is still trying to find the easiest route.

Student answer: Because the earth's gravitational pull.

Student answer: Because the river leads to an open delta.

Student answer: It flows in that direction because the mountain usually carries the water down the side of the mountain.

Student answer: I think the water flows in that direction because water cannot flow uphill.

Student answer: Rivers usually flow through valley. It grow weaker at the mountain because it cannot go uphill.

Student answer: There are other little streams at that end that was formed by water.

Student answer: Rivers cannot flow up mountain and valleys cannot be on mountain so it is flowing towards happy valley.

Student answer: I think that way, because the water will flow down the mountain, not up it.

Student answer: All the streams flow together forming one bigger river.

Student answer: I think this because the stream is getting wider as it goes on.

Student answer: Because that is downhill.

Student answer: I think it flows there because the river eroded the valley and the water would be flowing down the valley.

Student answer: The river gets the water from the mountain and takes it to happy valley.

Student answer: I think the water flows in the direction because that is where the crack is.

Student answer: I think flows in that direction because it starts small and it gets bigger.

Student answer: I think the water flows in that direction because water cannot flow up a mountain.