River Features and Flooding

Question 1

What is a meander

Answer 1

Bend in the river

Question 2

On a meander where is the fastest flow?

Answer 2

The outside

Question 3

On a meander where does deposition occur?

Answer 3

The inside

Question 4

Is a river cliff likely to form on the outside or the inside of a meander?

Answer 4

Outside

Question 5

Where is the hard rock located on a waterfall?

Answer 5

On top

Question 6

Where is the soft rock located on a waterfall?

Answer 6

underneath

Question 7

How is a plunge pool formed?

Answer 7

Force of water hitting rock

Question 8

What is the ledge of hard rock called on a waterfall?

Answer 8

Overhang

Question 9

When a waterfall retreats (goes backwards) if forms a

Answer 9

Gorge

Question 10

What named example of a waterfall have we studied?

Answer 10

Niagara falls

Question 11

What two ways have people used waterfalls?

Answer 11

• Tourism

- Hydroelectric

Question 12

What is the flat area next to a river called?

Answer 12

Floodplain

Question 13

What is the Bluff line?

Answer 13

Edge of a floodplain

Question 14

What is the key process that forms floodplain?

Answer 14

Deposition

Question 15

How are levees made?

Answer 15

Out of deposited material

Question 16

How can levees be made?

Answer 16

They are made both naturally and man made

Question 17

What word is used for water flowing over the surface of the land?

Answer 17

Overland flow

Question 18

What word is used for water flowing into the soil?

Answer 18

Infiltration

Question 19

What word is used when there is too much water in the soil and it cannot take anymore?

Answer 19

Saturation

Question 20

Give the 4 natural causes of flooding

Answer 20

• Heavy rainfall
• Prolonged rainfall
• Steep relief
• Impermeable geology

Question 21

Give 2 man made (human) causes of flooding.

Answer 21

• Deforestation

- Urbanisation