Why do you typically find bigger rocks along the banks of a fast-moving stream and smaller rocks and pebbles beside a slower-moving stream?

A) As a stream slows, it deposits its smaller sediments first.
B) As a stream slows, it deposits its larger sediments first.
C) Fast-moving streams carry only large sediments.
D) Slow-moving streams carry only dissolved sediments.


B

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