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Rivers - Upstream

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

The area of land DRAINED by a river system is called the _____________

drainage basin

mouth

tributaries

source

What is the name of the point where a river starts?

Source

Point A

Heart

Opening

What is the name of the point where a river ends?

Tributary

Water Shed

Confluence

Mouth

In the natural environment, water flows in a?

Straight Line

Channel

Waterfalls often form in the upper stages of a river where it flows over different bands of rock. What type of rock dose it erod

Hard

Soft

What features are associated with waterfalls

A. Niagara, Victoria, Angel, High Force

B. Plunge pool, undercutting, hard and soft rock.

C. Weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition

What river features and landforms are associated with a cross section or profile of a river valley in its upper course.

A. river source, V-shape, interlocking spurs, narrow and shallow river channel

B. delta, flood plain, river mouth, levees, wide and deep river channel

C. sheep farming, wind turbines, HEP (hydro-electric power) stations and dams and reservoirs

River deposition occurs when...

The river loses energy and deposits material on the inside of a bend

The river loses energy and cannot carry its load

The river loses energy and erodes the bed

The river loses energy and builds a waterfall

The area of land DRAINED by a river system is called the _____________

drainage basin

mouth

tributaries

source

10.

Which landform can be seen in the photo?

Waterfall

Estuary

Inter-locking Spur

Meander

11.

What is the deep water called beneath a waterfall?

Plunge bath

Mermaids retreat

Plunge pool

Pool

12.

Waterfalls - what is the gap called between the hard and soft rock created by erosion?

Deadman's drop

Hole

Erosional gap

Overhang

13.

What landform can you see in the picture?

U shaped valley

V Shaped Valley

Floodplain

Waterfall

14.

What are three things that rivers do naturally?

a.erode, transport, and deposit

b. dissolve, precipitate, sublime

c. evaporate, percolate, infiltrate

d.none of these

15.

For a waterfall to form there needs to be two layers of rock. Which way round must they be?

Soft rock on top of hard rock

Hard rock on top of soft rock

16.

Waterfalls are landforms created by....

Erosion

Deposition

17.

What type of weathering is most likely to happen here?

Chemical

Onion skin

Freeze-thaw

Biological

18.

What are the steps of a v-shaped valley?

Weathering, eroding down, slope transport, v-shaped valley

slope transport, weathering, eroding down, v-shaped valley

Eroding down, weathering, slope transport, v-shaped valley

weathering, slope transport, eroding down, v-shaped valley.

19.

Pick the correct order

Transportation, weathering, deposition, erosion

weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition

Erosion, transportaion, depositon, weathering

stream "walls" by louis tomlinson

20.

How are valleys formed?

formed by the effects of running water creating a v-shaped land area

formed by erosion and weathering of soft rock caused by the movement of water creating steep walls

formed by the deposition of sediments carried by the river as the water flows out of the mouth creating the fan shaped opening.

formed by the wind moving the sand and rocks to another spot

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Rivers - Upstream

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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