Rivers

Question 1

The water cycle What do we call the water drops that fall as rain or hail or sleet or snow.

Answer 1

Precipitation

Question 2

What is the water cycle? What happens when the air rises higher where it is cooler. Water vapour ???????? into tiny water droplets. These form clouds.

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Condenses

Question 3

What is the water cycle? The Sun warms oceans, lakes and seas, turning water into water vapour , the gas. What is this called?

Answer 3

Evaporation

Question 4

How rainfall reaches the river If the ground is hard or very wet, rain water just runs along it. What is this called?

Answer 4

Surface runoff

Question 5

How rainfall reaches the river What is it called when the rain soaks into the ground?

Answer 5

Infiltration

Question 6

How rainfall reaches the river Some of the rain that soaks into the ground flows sideways through the soil. what is this called?

Answer 6

Throughflow

Question 7

How rainfall reaches the river What water is always on the move? It flows along slowly.

Answer 7

Groundwater

Question 8

Parts of the river What do we call the startIng point of the river. It could be a springa lake, or a marshy area where a lot of rain gathers

Answer 8

Source

Question 9

Parts of the river What do we call the point where two rivers join?

Answer 9

Confluence

Question 10

Parts of the river What do we call the smaller rivers that joining the main one

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Tributaries

Question 11

Parts of a river What do we call the imaginary line that separates one drainage basin from the next?

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Watershed

Question 12

Parts of the river What do you call the land that may get flooded when a river overflows

Answer 12

Flood plain

Question 13

Parts of the river What happens to the river as you go from the source to the mouth?

Answer 13

It gets wider

Question 14

Parts of the river The river is fed by the rain that falls in area that we call the??????

Answer 14

Drainage basin

Question 15

Parts of the river What is the highest point of the river?

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Source

Question 16

River erosion some rock in the river bank is broken down into stone and soil by?????

Answer 16

Weathering

Question 17

River erosion Sand and stones in the river scrape the bed and banks, and wear them away. What is this called?

Answer 17

Abrasion

Question 18

River erosion Rocks and stones knock together and wear each other away. What is this called?

Answer 18

Attrition

Question 19

River erosion In a fast flowing river, water is forced into cracks in the bank. Over time it breaks up the bank. What is this called?

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Hydraulic action

Question 20

River erosion Water dissolves soluble minerals from bed and banks. This helps to break them up. What is it called?

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Solution

Question 21

Transport The material the riverbed carries its called?????

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Its load

Question 22

Transport The heavier material is carried along the bottom it is called??????

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Bedload

Question 23

Transport Small light particles of rock and soil are carried along. they make the water look cloudy or muddy. What is it called?

Answer 23

Suspension

Question 24

Deposition When it reaches flatter land the river slows down. it no longer has the energy to carry its load, so it deposits it. The deposit material is called?????

Answer 24

Sediment

Question 25

Deposition What happens to dissolved material in the river?

Answer 25

It stays in the water and is carried out to the lake or sea.

Question 26

What is the water cycle? What do we call rock that will not let water pass through?

Answer 26

Impermeable

Question 27

What is a longer name for rainfall, beginning with P?

Answer 27

Precipitation

Question 28

Parts of a river What is the name for the part of the river where it flows into the sea?

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Mouth of the river

Question 29

Parts of a river What do we call the parts between two river banks where the water flows?

Answer 29

The channel

Question 30

Rivers at work What are the three stages for a river flowing?

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1) pick up or ERODE material from one place 2) carry or TRANSPORT the material to another place 3) then the river drops or DEPOSIT

Question 31

Rivers Rocks and stones knock together and wear each other away. What is this called?

Answer 31

Attrition

Question 32

Rivers When it reaches flatter land, the river slows down. It no longer has the energy to carry its load, so it deposits it. The deposited material is called?

Answer 32

The deposited material is called sediment.

Question 33

As the river slows, it deposits its load. How?

Answer 33

The river deposits the largest stones and pebbles first, then smaller ones Then finally, the smallest particles.

Question 34

Rivers What are 6 uses of a river?

Answer 34

1) water supply 2) to make hydro electricity (maybe including a dam) 3) for (irrigation and food) for crops / farming 4) for industry - many factories use rivers to clean / wash them or to cool tanks where chemicals are reacting 5) transport (barges and boats, but more in some other countries than the uk) 6) for leisure and pleasure - walks, fishing, boating, swimming etc 7) as a dump some people dump rubbish, sometimes factories dump ‘cleaned’ waste liquid into rivers

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