Rivers

Question 1

Where does a river start?

Answer 1

Source

Question 2

What is a small river that comes off the main river?

Answer 2

Tributary

Question 3

What is the name of the point where two rivers meet?

Answer 3

Confluence

Question 4

What is formed on the outside bend of a river?

Answer 4

River cliff.

Question 5

What formations would you find in the middle course?

Answer 5

Meanders/Oxbow Lakes

Question 6

What formations would you find in the upper course?

Answer 6

Waterfall/Gorge

Question 7

What formation would you find in the lower course?

Answer 7

Floodplains

Question 8

The point where the river meets the sea?

Answer 8

Mouth

Question 9

How does a waterfall form?

Answer 9

The soft rock erodes quicker than the hard rock leaving an overhang/undercut.

Question 10

What are the erosion techniques?

Answer 10

(HAAS) Hydraulic Action, Attrition, Abrasion, Solution.

Question 11

What is deposition?

Answer 11

The dropping of materials/sediment.

Question 12

Transportation techniques?

Answer 12

(TSSS) Traction, Saltation, Suspension, Solution.

Question 13

Define hydraulic action?

Answer 13

The sheer force of water compressing into the cracks of rocks.

Question 14

Define abrasion?

Answer 14

The scraping of sediment against the river bed like sandpaper removing small bits.

Question 15

Define attrition?

Answer 15

Sediment colliding and becoming smaller and more rounder.

Question 16

Define solution?

Answer 16

Acids in water dissolve certain types of rock such as limestone.