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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of these is an input?

a)

vegetation

b)

precipitation

c)

throughflow

d)

discharge

2.

what is the store when water is held by vegetation called?

(a)  

3.

Spot the odd one out

a)

overland flow

b)

throughflow

c)

surface runoff

d)

watershed

4.

This diagram shows a meander. What is the feature labelled B called?

a)

river cliff

b)

river erosion

c)

point bar

d)

deposition

5.

Which process occurs at C

a)

deposition

b)

erosion

c)

transport

6.

The image shows a waterfall. What do we call the feature where the water gathers at the base of the waterfall?

a)

Rapids

b)

Step

c)

plunge pool

d)

bedload

7.

Rivers flood regularly in the lower course. What do we call the features that develop on the banks when the river floods.

(a)  

8.

Floods can be caused by people and their actions or human factors. Which of the following is a human factor that could result in flooding?

a)

Heavy rainfall

b)

Wet soils from prolonged rainfall

c)

Planting trees

d)

building on floodplains

9.

Deforestation is what type of cause of flooding?

a)

Human

b)

Physical

10.

How high are the levees built along the Mississippi river?

a)

13m

b)

15m

c)

17m

d)

25m

11.

Levees were installed for how many kilometers along the Mississippi?

a)

300km

b)

30000km

c)

3000km

d)

3300km

12.

Rocks and particles of the bedload banging into each other and becoming smaller and more rounded is called....

a)

abrasion

b)

attrition

c)

hydraulic action

d)

solution

13.

The bedload wearing away the bed and banks, like a sandpaper effect is...

a)

solution

b)

attrition

c)

abrasion

d)

hydraulic action

14.

Where did afforestation take place along the Mississippi?

a)

New Orleans

b)

Rock Island

c)

Tennessee Valley

d)

Minnesota

15.

Safe flooding zones were created where?

a)

New Orleans

b)

Rock Island

c)

Tennessee Valley

d)

Minnesota

16.

Engineers straightened how many kilometers of the river?

a)

750km

b)

1175km

c)

1750km

d)

17500km

17.

The process of river transportation where material is rolled along the riverbed is called.....

a)

saltation

b)

traction

c)

corrasion

d)

solution

18.

which river is longer?

a)

Amazon

b)

Mississippi

19.

Odd one out...

a)

dams

b)

straightening

c)

deepening

d)

washlands

20.

Which TWO rivers flooded on the Somerset Levels for your case study?

a)

Tone

b)

Tane

c)

Parrett

d)

Thames