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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which of these is an input?
vegetation
precipitation
throughflow
discharge
what is the store when water is held by vegetation called?
(a)
Spot the odd one out
overland flow
throughflow
surface runoff
watershed
This diagram shows a meander. What is the feature labelled B called?
river cliff
river erosion
point bar
deposition
Which process occurs at C
deposition
erosion
transport
The image shows a waterfall. What do we call the feature where the water gathers at the base of the waterfall?
Rapids
Step
plunge pool
bedload
Rivers flood regularly in the lower course. What do we call the features that develop on the banks when the river floods.
(a)
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?
Heavy rainfall
Wet soils from prolonged rainfall
Planting trees
building on floodplains
Deforestation is what type of cause of flooding?
Human
Physical
How high are the levees built along the Mississippi river?
13m
15m
17m
25m
Levees were installed for how many kilometers along the Mississippi?
300km
30000km
3000km
3300km
Rocks and particles of the bedload banging into each other and becoming smaller and more rounded is called....
abrasion
attrition
hydraulic action
solution
The bedload wearing away the bed and banks, like a sandpaper effect is...
solution
attrition
abrasion
hydraulic action
Where did afforestation take place along the Mississippi?
New Orleans
Rock Island
Tennessee Valley
Minnesota
Safe flooding zones were created where?
New Orleans
Rock Island
Tennessee Valley
Minnesota
Engineers straightened how many kilometers of the river?
750km
1175km
1750km
17500km
The process of river transportation where material is rolled along the riverbed is called.....
saltation
traction
corrasion
solution
which river is longer?
Amazon
Mississippi
Odd one out...
dams
straightening
deepening
washlands
Which TWO rivers flooded on the Somerset Levels for your case study?
Tone
Tane
Parrett
Thames
