River key words

Question 1

What is the hydrological cycle?

Answer 1

Another for the water cycle

Question 2

What is transpiration?

Answer 2

Water vapour given off by trees

Question 3

What is evaporation?

Answer 3

Water vapour from sea/lakes

Question 4

What is infiltration?

Answer 4

The movement of water into the soil

Question 5

What is surface run-off?

Answer 5

The movement of water over a saturated soil surface

Question 6

What is through flow?

Answer 6

The movement of water through the soil

Question 7

What is precipitation?

Answer 7

Rain/hail/snow

Question 8

What is a watershed?

Answer 8

A ridge of high ground separating drainage basins

Question 9

What is a drainage basins?

Answer 9

Area drained by the river and it`s tributaries

Question 10

What is a source?

Answer 10

The start of the river

Question 11

What is the mouth of the river?

Answer 11

End of the river usually a sea or lake

Question 12

What is weathering?

Answer 12

Break down of rock and left in situ

Question 13

What is erosion?

Answer 13

Breakdown and removal of rock

Question 14

What is abrasion?

Answer 14

Water swirls pebbles to chip at the river channel

Question 15

What is attrition?

Answer 15

It is the wearing away of pebbles as they collide into eachother

Question 16

What is hydraulic action?

Answer 16

It`s when water enters a crack and this makes the crack widen

Question 17

What is the solution process?

Answer 17

A chemical reaction between water and certain rock types

Question 18

What is a tributary

Answer 18

A stream that joins a river