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River Profile & River Processes

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 14mins

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Class
Date
1.

This part of the drainage basin is the edge of highland. It surrounds a drainage basin and marks the boundary between two drainage basins.

a)

Catchment Area

b)

Confluence

c)

Watershed

d)

Tributary

2.

By placing a compass on the mouth of the drainage basin, which direction is the mouth of the drainage basin?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

e)

Northwest

3.

Drainage basin is an open system. This open system has 4 mechanisms. Which of the following are mechanisms involved? (There may be more than one correct answer)

a)

Input

b)

Output

c)

Groundwater Storage

d)

Transfer

e)

Precipitation

4.

Which of the following are part of the storage mechanism in a drainage basin? (There may be more than one correct answer)

a)

Soil Moisture

b)

Channel Flow

c)

Groundwater

d)

Infiltration

e)

Evaporation

5.

What is the Bradshaw Model used for?

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6.

How would you describe the channel at the upper course of the river?

a)

Deep

b)

Shallow

c)

Narrow

d)

Wide

7.

Which of the following are the 3 main river processes?

a)

Solution

b)

Vertical Erosion

c)

Transportation

d)

Deposition

e)

Erosion

8.

When the velocity of the river decreases, it no longer has enough energy to carry its sediment. The sediment will be dropped at the river bed/river bank. Which process is this?

a)

Erosion

b)

Deposition

c)

Transportation

d)

Saltation

e)

Lateral Erosion

9.

Which of the following transportation process involves small rocks bouncing along the river bed?

a)

Traction

b)

Saltation

c)

Suspension

d)

Solution

10.

Which of the following erosion process involves small particles scraping of other materials along the river banks.

a)

Corrosion (solution)

b)

Corrasion (abrasion)

c)

Attrition

d)

Hydraulic Action

11.

What is the difference between lateral erosion and vertical erosion?

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12.

True/False: The greater the energy a river carries, the higher the rate of river erosion.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Which of the following explains the erosion process of Hydraulic Action?

a)

The mild acidic river water dissolves the rocks and minerals

b)

Rocks in the water scrape of the materials from the river bank/river bed

c)

When rocks collide into each other, they become smaller and rounder

d)

The force of the water creates a frictional drag of the water, causing materials to be removed.

14.

_______________ is responsible for carrying materials along the river.

a)

Erosion

b)

Transportation

c)

Deposition

d)

Abrasion

15.

_______________ is responsible for making the river deeper and wider.

a)

Erosion

b)

Transportation

c)

Deposition

d)

Suspension