Fluvial Environments

Question 1

What is another name for corrosion?

Answer 1

Solution

Question 2

Traction is the transport process best described as?

Answer 2

Rolling

Question 3

What type of load is moved by traction?

Answer 3

Bedload

Question 4

Discharge is calculated by multiplying what?

Answer 4

Speed x CSA

Question 5

What does CSA stand for?

Answer 5

Cross Section Area

Question 6

What does discharge tell you about a river?

Answer 6

Volume of water passing a place per second

Question 7

What is the competence of a river?

Answer 7

The maximum size of particle which it can carry

Question 8

What is capacity?

Answer 8

The amount of load it is carrying

Question 9

What is the velocity of a river?

Answer 9

The speed of a river

Question 10

What is the Hjulstrom curve?

Answer 10

Curve showing the size of the particle and where it is deposited

Question 11

Which process moves regolith down the valley side into the river?

Answer 11

Mass movement

Question 12

Why do rivers deposit lots of alluvium along their banks when they flood?

Answer 12

Page competence of the river drops as the speed drops

Question 13

What are the raised banks called?

Answer 13

Levees

Question 14

How do meanders get more sinuous?

Answer 14

Erosion on the outside of the bends

Question 15

What is the flood plain of a river made of?

Answer 15

Alluvium

Question 16

Where is the River Tees?

Answer 16

North East England

Question 17

Where is the River Mekong?

Answer 17

South East Asia

Question 18

Where is the River Ribble?

Answer 18

Lancashire

Question 19

What does Attrition erode?

Answer 19

Load

Question 20

What features do resistant rocks often produce?

Answer 20

Cliffs, caves, arches and stacks

Question 21

What type of rock do all major stretches of upland coast in the British Isles consist of?

Answer 21

Resistant Rock

Question 22

Give an example of resistant rock?

Answer 22

Jurrasic sandstone in Northeast Yorkshire