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Rivers: Key Processes and Features

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is meant by 'Traction' ?

a)

Transportation of sand and silt only

b)

Transportation of soluble minerals

c)

Transportation of rock without rock leaving the river bed

d)

Transportation of small rocks

2.

What do we mean by 'Hydraulic Action' ?

a)

The name of a flooded river

b)

The point where one river joins another

c)

To bounce rocks alone

d)

The power of the water to smash up rock

3.

What do we mean by 'Suspension' ?

a)

To prevent the river from flowing

b)

Rock or mineral particles held in the water and who never touch the river bed

c)

To hang something from the ceiling

d)

To dissolve in the water

4.

Vertical Erosion is when ...

a)

When water flowing over a shallow gradient erodes the bed

b)

When water flowing over a steep gradient erodes the banks

c)

Water flowing over steep gradient erodes the bed.

d)

When water flowing over a shallow gradient erodes the banks

5.

What do we mean by 'Abrasion' ?

a)

The break down of rocks, in situ, or in their original position

b)

Rocks and sand rubbing against the bed and banks

c)

Rocks bouncing along the river bed

d)

Rocks being dropped along the route of the river

6.

What is erosion?

a)

When rock is worn down by wind, water or ice, in situ, or in its original position

b)

When rocky material is picked up by the river

c)

When rocky material being transported by the river is dumped

d)

When rocky material is moved from on place to another

7.

What is 'lateral erosion' ?

a)

When water erodes the sides of a rock only

b)

When water flowing over a steep gradient erodes the river's banks

c)

When water flowing over a shallow gradient erodes the river banks only

d)

When water flowing over a shallow gradient erodes the river's bed

8.

Lateral erosion produces which kind of river feature?

a)

Delta

b)

Meander

c)

V-shaped Valley

d)

Waterfall

9.

Waterfalls are associated with which other natural feature ?

a)

Gorges

b)

Ox-Bow Lakes

c)

River Cliffs

d)

Interlocking Spurs

10.

Which group of river features are associated with a river's Upper Course?

a)

V-shaped valleys, waterfalls, gorges, interlocking spurs

b)

Source, Ox-Bow Lakes, waterfalls, Gorges

c)

Waterfalls, V-shaped Valleys, Deltas, Floodplains

d)

Deltas, flood plains, meanders Ox-bow lakes