River Features Key Words

Question 1

Source

Answer 1

The area a river begins

Question 2

Mouth

Answer 2

The river ends its journey usually into a sea or a lake

Question 3

Tributary

Answer 3

The smaller river that joins a larger one

Question 4

Confluence

Answer 4

The point two rivers join

Question 5

Watershed

Answer 5

The boundary between two drainage basins marked by a ridge of earth

Question 6

Drainage basin

Answer 6

The are which is drained by a river and its tributaries

Question 7

Abrassion / corrasion

Answer 7

This is the process by which the bed and banks are worn down bythe river load . The river throws their particles aganst the bed and banks causing the snd paper effect

Question 8

Atrittion

Answer 8

Material carried by river bump into each other. Eventually the load is brocken down to smaller smoother pieces

Question 9

Corrasion / solution

Answer 9

This is the chemical reaction is the rivers water slowly dissolving the bed and particles with its weak acids

Question 10

Hydrolic action

Answer 10

This force involves the force of water against the banks and bed

Question 11

Evaporation

Answer 11

This is the process where water turns from liquid to vapour

Question 12

Condensation

Answer 12

This is the process that turns colling vapour to liquid

Question 13

Precipitation

Answer 13

This is the name of the water that falls on the earth surface eg snow or rain

Question 14

Transpiration

Answer 14

This is the process where plants and trees release water vapour into the atmosphere from the leaves

Question 15

Surface runoffs

Answer 15

This is the name given to the water that has sunk in the ground

Question 16

Infiltration

Answer 16

Water seeps into the ground

Question 17

Percolation

Answer 17

Water flows vertically through the soil and rocks