Year 8 Rivers 2023

The area of land drained by a river and its tributaries is a...

• Drainage basin

• Source

• Tributary

• Confluence

A small stream that joins a larger river is a...

• drainage basin

• confluence

• tributary

• watershed

The start of a river is the...

• Drainage basin

• Source

• Mouth

• tributary

The river flows in this, it has a bed and 2 banks...

• Drainage basin

• tributary

• channel

• mouth

The end of a river, where it joins the sea is called the...

• watershed

• channel

• source

• mouth

the wearing away of the land by a river is a physical process called...

• Erosion

• Transportation

• Deposition

When sediment is dropped, e.g. when a river slows down as it meets the sea, or the inside of a meander bed, the physical process is called...

• Erosion

• Transportation

• Deposition

Most erosion of a river is caused by stones being dragged along a river bed by the flow, scraping and wearing it down, this is called...

• Hydraulic action

• Abrasion

• Attrition

• Solution

The force of water hitting against the river bed and banks, eroding them is called...

• Hydraulic action

• Abrasion

• Attrition

• Solution

Transportation processes: small sediment being carried floating in the river, making it muddy looking is called...

• Traction

• Suspension

• Saltation

• Solution