WorksheetsFoundation year River keywords
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
What is a drainage basin?
A sink that gets rid of waste water
The area between two or more mountains where a river flows
The area of land where any water falling there will feed into a river
Its the imaginary line that borders one watershed from another.
An imaginary line that marks the extent of the drainage basin
Watershed
Drainage limit
water Shed
discharge basin
Which shows the hydrological cycle?
Which shows a tributary?
Which shows a confluence?
which shows a meander
which shows a braid
What is a long profile?
Which is a cross section
Which description is best to describe how waterfalls are created (you have extra time for reading)
During an earthquake rocks move where one rock is higher than the other a waterfall occurs
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.
Layers of soft and hard rock are eroded at different speeds causing an uneven surface. Water rushing over this surface creates a waterfall.
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.
what is a pothole
Whicha is a V shaped Valley?
Which is interlocking spurs?
Which is a gorge?
Which belong together
Meander
Rapids
delta
ox bow lake
Which belong together
v shaped valley
meander
gorge
waterfall
Which belong together
traction
deposition
erosion
abrasion
Which is not a form of erosion?
Hydraulic action
Solution
Saltation
abrasion
Which is not a form of transportation?
Solution
Attrition
Saltation
Traction
Which are formations of deposition (two answers)
River Cliff
V shaped Valley
Slip off slopes
Deltas
plunge pools
