Rivers

Question 1

Where is the mouth located

Answer 1

At the end of the river. Leading it to the sea

Question 2

What is the bottom of a channel called?

Answer 2

River bed

Question 3

What is it called when a river over flows?

Answer 3

Floodplain

Question 4

What is the beginning of a river called?

Answer 4

Source

Question 5

What is the point where to rivers join called?

Answer 5

Confluence

Question 6

What is a water fall?

Answer 6

Where water tumbles over a rock ledge

Question 7

Witch part of the river has a v-shaped valley?

Answer 7

Upper course

Question 8

What is on top of groundwater called?

Answer 8

Water table

Question 9

What does erosion mean?

Answer 9

Wearing away

Question 10

What is ground water?

Answer 10

Is the water under soil

Question 11

What is hard engineering?

Answer 11

Something that man has built

Question 12

What is soft engendering?

Answer 12

Built by working with nater

Question 13

What is a damp

Answer 13

A wall that stops water from getting in but let’s some of the water through

Question 14

What are Meandering rivers?

Answer 14

Long bendy rivers

Question 15

What is tributary?

Answer 15

Is a stream that joins the main river

Question 16

What is a estuary?

Answer 16

Is where the mouth is low enough to let the sea in at high tide

Question 17

What is a levee?

Answer 17

Is a natural or artificial slop or wall

Question 18

What are Spurs?

Answer 18

Pieces of hard rock