River Landforms and Processes

What landform can you see in the picture?

• U shaped valley

• V Shaped Valley

• Floodplain

• Waterfall

Which landform can be seen in the photo?

• Waterfall

• Estuary

• Inter-locking Spur

• Meander

What landform can you see in this picture?

• Waterfall

• V Shaped Valley

• Meander

• Ox-bow lake

What is the deep water called beneath a waterfall?

• Plunge bath

• Mermaids retreat

• Plunge pool

• Pool

Waterfalls - what is the gap called between the hard and soft rock created by erosion?

• Deadman's drop

• Hole

• Erosional gap

• Ledge

Which two erosional processes create waterfalls?

• Solution

• Abrasion

• Hydraulic Action

• Attrition

What is formed as the waterfall retreats upstream?

• Waterfall

• V-shaped valley

• Gorge

• Oxbow lake

What landform can you see in the picture?

• Meanders

• Rapids

• Estuary

• V shaped valleys

Which of these describes Hydraulic action?

• Water dissolves soluble minerals from the river beds and banks

• Rocks and stones scrap the river bed and bank wearing them away

• In a fast flowing river water is forced into the cracks of the bank and over time erode the banks.

• Rocks and stones hit into one another knocking bits off. The rocks and stones become smaller, rounder and smoother.

Which of these describes attrition?

• Water dissolves soluble minerals from the river beds and banks

• Rocks and stones scrap the river bed and bank wearing them away

• In a fast flowing river water is forced into the cracks of the bank and over time erode the banks.

• Rocks and stones hit into one another knocking bits off. The rocks and stones become smaller, rounder and smoother.