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theme 2.1 rivers Flashcards

Shaping the landscape - rivers

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What is the drainage basin?

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The catchment area of the river

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What is the source?

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The start of a river, on high ground

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What is a tributary?

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A smaller river that leads into a bigger river

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What is a confluence?

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Where two rivers meet

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What is the watershed?

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The edge of a basin

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What is the mouth?

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Where a river meets the sea

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What is the water cycle?

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Evaporation (liquid water becomes water vapor) -> transportation (the movement of water vapor) -> condensation (water vapor becomes liquid water) -> precipitation (water droplets falling as rain, snow, sleet or hail)

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What is interception?

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Water is stored on the branches and leaves of vegetation

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What is transpiration?

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Water vapor is released through the stomata (pores) in the leaves

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What is throughflow?

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Water flows horizontally through the soil into the river

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What is percolation?

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Water flows vertically through the soil and rocks

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What is infiltration?

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Water seeps into the ground

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What is groundwater flow?

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Water flows horizontally through the rock into the river

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What is evaporation?

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Water turns from water droplets into water vapor

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what is erosion?

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the wearing away of land and rock over time

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what is transport?

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sediment being carried from one place to another by a river

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what is discharge?

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the amount of water that passes a particular point in a river

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what is the load?

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the material carried by a river

19
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what is deposition?

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when the river drops some of its load

20
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what is vertical erosion?

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downward erosion

21
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what are interlocking spurs?

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the pieces of land that interlock along a rivers course, they form V-shaped valleys

22
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what is a gorge?

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a steep sided valley formed by the retreat of a waterfall

23
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what is a plunge pool?

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the pool at the bottom of a waterfall

24
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what is lateral erosion?

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the horizontal erosion of the river banks that creates meanders

25
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what is a floodplain?

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the area of flat land around a river that floods when a river bursts its banks

26
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what is an oxbow lake?

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a C shaped lake formed when a meander is cut off

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