IGCSE Rivers Revision

Which is NOT a method of transportation?

• Abrasion
• Saltation
• Traction
• Suspension

Where would you find a waterfall?

• Upper course
• Middle Course
• Lower Course

What landform can you see in the picture?

• Floodplain
• Delta
• Waterfall
• Oxbow lake

"Rocks rolled along the river bed" is what type of transportation?

• Saltation
• Suspension
• Traction
• Solution

"When rocks scrape along the river bank and bed" is what type of erosion?

• Attrition
• Abrasion
• Solution
• Hydraulic Action

"This is where plants, trees, or buildings collect the precipitation" What am I?

• Interception
• Infiltration
• Percolation
• Surface runoff

"Where the water filters into the ground and into the tiny pores in the soil" What am I?

• Infiltration
• Percolation
• Precipitation
• Interception

"I am the movement of water sideways through the soil" What am I?

• Throughflow

• Rock flow

• Soil flow

• Groundwater flow

"I am a smaller river joining a larger river" What am I?

• Confluence
• Tributary 
• Drainage Basin
• Watershed

I am the land that gets flooded when the river overflows. What am I?

• Levee
• Delta
• Floodplain
• Meander