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WorksheetsFluvial Graphs/Diagrams Questions
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
What is the small island called that is formed when sediments are deposited and dropped off to form a small island in a river?
a)
A deposit
b)
A bar
c)
A break-off
d)
A mini-island
2.
Where do most rivers originate?
a)
Depositions in larger bodies of water
b)
Wind erosion
c)
Ice from the tops of mountains
d)
Ice from the bottom of mountains
3.
Which river has the most annual discharge?
a)
The Yangtze river
b)
The Amazon river
c)
The Nile river
d)
The Congo river
4.
Which of these 4 rivers have had the second most amount of erosion?
a)
Nile River
b)
Mississippi River
c)
Yangtze River
d)
Amazon River
5.
What does annual discharge mean?
a)
It means the amount of water that comes out of these rivers yearly.
b)
It means the amount of deposition that comes out of these rivers yearly.
c)
It means the amount of Erosion that takes place in rivers monthly.
d)
It means the amount of water that comes out of these rivers monthly.
6.
What do you call it when the river looks like it breaks off from the rest of the river but sediments just deposited there blocking it off?
a)
An Oxbow Lake
b)
Deposition
c)
A break-off
d)
Mini-island
7.
What causes these rivers to be made?
a)
A break-off
b)
A cutoff
c)
Deposition
d)
Erosion
8.
Which of these rivers has had the least amount of erosion?
a)
Nile river
b)
Yangtze river
c)
Amazon river
d)
Mississippi river
9.
Whats the space between an Oxbow lake and a river called?
a)
A breakoff
b)
A cutoff
c)
Deposition
d)
A deposite
10.
Which of these slopes causes the most erosion to occur?
a)
Flat slope
b)
Steep slope
c)
Wavy slope
d)
No slope
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