Changing Enviroments Rivers

Question 1

Types of erosion

Answer 1

Hydraulic, abrasion, attrition, corrosion

Question 2

What is hydraulic action

Answer 2

Erosion caused when water and air are formed into gaps in rocks and/or soil

Question 3

What is abrasion

Answer 3

Erosion of landscape caused by friction. The water uses rocks and pebbles to do the work of erosion

Question 4

What is attrition

Answer 4

A type of erosion where rocks smash against each other making them smaller and more rounded

Question 5

What is corrosion

Answer 5

The wearing of the landscape by chemicals processes such as solution

Question 6

Types of transportation

Answer 6

Traction, saltation,suspension, solution

Question 7

What is traction?

Answer 7

Large boulders moving along river

Question 8

What is saltation?

Answer 8

Rocks moving along the river

Question 9

What is suspension?

Answer 9

Small pebbles moving along the river

Question 10

What is solution

Answer 10

Dissolved minerals moving along the river

Question 11

what is deposition?

Answer 11

This is where the river drops or leaves behind material that it has been carrying

Question 12

What is an ox-bow lake

Answer 12

A horseshoe shaped cut off from the main river. Caused by erosion

Question 13

Floodplain

Answer 13

The wide/flat valley floor of a river where silt is deposited during time of flood