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Foundation year River keywords

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a drainage basin?

a)

A sink that gets rid of waste water

b)

The area between two or more mountains where a river flows

c)

The area of land where any water falling there will feed into a river

d)

Its the imaginary line that borders one watershed from another.

2.

An imaginary line that marks the extent of the drainage basin

a)

Watershed

b)

Drainage limit

c)

water Shed

d)

discharge basin

3.

Which shows the hydrological cycle?

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

Which shows a tributary?

a)
b)
c)
d)
5.

Which shows a confluence?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

which shows a meander

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

which shows a braid

a)
b)
c)
d)
8.

What is a long profile?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

Which is a cross section

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

Which description is best to describe how waterfalls are created (you have extra time for reading)

a)

During an earthquake rocks move where one rock is higher than the other a waterfall occurs

b)

Soft rock is on top of hard rock, the river erodes the base making a cave behind the waterfall, eventually the softer rock breaks off.

c)

Layers of soft and hard rock are eroded at different speeds causing an uneven surface. Water rushing over this surface creates a waterfall.

d)

Hard rock is on top of soft rock, the river erodes the base making a cave behind the waterfall, eventually the hard rock breaks off.

11.

what is a pothole

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

Whicha is a V shaped Valley?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

Which is interlocking spurs?

a)
b)
c)
d)
14.

Which is a gorge?

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

Which belong together

a)

Meander

b)

Rapids

c)

delta

d)

ox bow lake

16.

Which belong together

a)

v shaped valley

b)

meander

c)

gorge

d)

waterfall

17.

Which belong together

a)

traction

b)

deposition

c)

erosion

d)

abrasion

18.

Which is not a form of erosion?

a)

Hydraulic action

b)

Solution

c)

Saltation

d)

abrasion

19.

Which is not a form of transportation?

a)

Solution

b)

Attrition

c)

Saltation

d)

Traction

20.

Which are formations of deposition (two answers)

a)

River Cliff

b)

V shaped Valley

c)

Slip off slopes

d)

Deltas

e)

plunge pools