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WorksheetsRiver Profile & River Processes
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
This part of the drainage basin is the edge of highland. It surrounds a drainage basin and marks the boundary between two drainage basins.
Catchment Area
Confluence
Watershed
Tributary
By placing a compass on the mouth of the drainage basin, which direction is the mouth of the drainage basin?
North
South
East
West
Northwest
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)
Input
Output
Groundwater Storage
Transfer
Precipitation
Which of the following are part of the storage mechanism in a drainage basin? (There may be more than one correct answer)
Soil Moisture
Channel Flow
Groundwater
Infiltration
Evaporation
What is the Bradshaw Model used for?
How would you describe the channel at the upper course of the river?
Deep
Shallow
Narrow
Wide
Which of the following are the 3 main river processes?
Solution
Vertical Erosion
Transportation
Deposition
Erosion
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?
Erosion
Deposition
Transportation
Saltation
Lateral Erosion
Which of the following transportation process involves small rocks bouncing along the river bed?
Traction
Saltation
Suspension
Solution
Which of the following erosion process involves small particles scraping of other materials along the river banks.
Corrosion (solution)
Corrasion (abrasion)
Attrition
Hydraulic Action
What is the difference between lateral erosion and vertical erosion?
True/False: The greater the energy a river carries, the higher the rate of river erosion.
True
False
Which of the following explains the erosion process of Hydraulic Action?
The mild acidic river water dissolves the rocks and minerals
Rocks in the water scrape of the materials from the river bank/river bed
When rocks collide into each other, they become smaller and rounder
The force of the water creates a frictional drag of the water, causing materials to be removed.
_______________ is responsible for carrying materials along the river.
Erosion
Transportation
Deposition
Abrasion
_______________ is responsible for making the river deeper and wider.
Erosion
Transportation
Deposition
Suspension
