KS2 Rivers

What river landforms are found in the upper course?

• Gorge

• Meander

• Delta

• Interlocking spurs

What does deposition mean?

• soil and rock gradually worn away

• items floating in the river

• Soil and sediment dropped by the river

• A bend in the river

Deposition happens on the...

• inside of a river bend where the river moves

  more slowly

• outside of a river bend where the river moves

  the fastest

How does the rain affect the river?

• Gets smaller

• Flooding

• Drought

What is the correct geographical term for the top of a mountain?

• Volcano

• Base

• Top

• Summit

What erosion process can be thought of

as 'water power'?

• attrition (rocks collide and break up)

• abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the

  riverbed and the banks)

• hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks

  down the riverbed and banks)

• solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)

What erosion process is similar to

sandpapering?

• attrition (rocks collide and break up)

• abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the

  riverbed and the banks)

• hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks

• solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)

What does erosion mean?

• Settling of sediment

• wearing away of rock and soil

• The bottom of the river

• The strength and speed of the river

How do waterfalls form?

• A layer of soft rock lies on top of a layer of hard rock

• A layer of hard rock lies on top of a layer of hard rock

• Abrasion erodes away a plunge pool at the bottom of the waterfall

• Solution and traction creates a plunge pool at the bottom of the river

Physical features in Geography are...

• man-made things that have been built by people.

• natural. They would be here even if there were no people around.

• things that can move and have human characteristics.

• what a person looks like