Rivers

Question 1

Processes of river transportation

Answer 1

Suspension
Solution
Traction
Saltation

Question 2

What is the positive impact on Dams March 20th

Answer 2

HEP Generation-provides renewable electricity reducing fossils fuel reliance.

Question 3

What is the negative impact on Dams March 20th

Answer 3

Displacement-flooding forces communities to relocate.

Question 4

Why has flooding increased recently

Answer 4

More people are living in towns built along rivers.
Example:Germany 2021

Question 5

How to reduce flooding

Answer 5

Dredge silt from the bed of rivers:this will prevent the river from bursting its banks.

Question 6

How do people use rivers

Answer 6

Sport and recreation
Water supply
Irrigation
Fortile floodplains

Question 7

What pieces carries away the land in four ways

Answer 7

Hydraulic action
Abrasion
Solution
Attrition

Question 8

What are the eight course of action river

Answer 8

Source
Tributary
Mouth
River basin
Confluence
Course
Estuary
Watershed

Question 9

Features of a river erosion

Answer 9

Name:Waterfall
Example:Powerscourt Co.Wicklow

Explain:Waterfalls form in the youthful stage of a river due to differential erosion.Hydraulic action is the main force with moving water wearing away the softer rock while abrasion uses the rivers land.As the river carries its load over the fall it deepens the plunge pool.Solution erodes the back wall creating an overhang of hard rock that eventually collapses into the plunge pool.