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1
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What is a meander?

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A pronounced bend in a river

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What is the Thalweg?

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The line of fastest flow in a river

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Name the 4 processes of river erosion?

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Abrasion

Attrition

Hydraulic Action

Solution

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Name the 4 processes of river transportation?

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Saltation

Solution

Traction

Suspension

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What is a V-Shaped Valley?

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A valley with steep sides and a narrow bottom that has been formed by erosion

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What is a Tributary?

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A smaller river or stream flowing into a larger river

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Define Erosion?

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The wearing away of rock by the natural processes of rivers, ice, wind and sea

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Define Transportation?

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The movement of eroded material by natural processes such as wind, rivers and sea

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Define Traction?

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Big boulders and stones are rolled and dragged along the river bed

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Define Saltation?

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Stones and pebbles bounce along the river bed

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Define Suspension?

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Smaller particles and stones (e.g. sand and silt) are carried by a river

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Define Solution?

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Some material is dissolved into the river water and transported this way

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Define Load?

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The amount of material carried by a river

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What is a Cross Profile?

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The change in river width and bank gradient at a specific point, a slice across the river

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Define Long Profile?

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The change in river width and bank gradient at a specific point, a slice across the river

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What is a Waterfall?

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A vertical fall of water where the course of a river is interrupted by a steep drop in the land it is flowing over

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What is a Gorge?

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A steep-sided cut through the landscape formed over thousands of years by a retreating waterfall

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What is a Plunge Pool?

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The area of deep water at the bottom of a waterfall, formed by hydraulic action and the grinding of rocks and pebbles

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What is a Floodplain?

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A flat area either side of a river which floods when the river overflows

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What is an Ox Bow Lake?

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A lake shaped like a crescent that is formed when a river bend is cut off from the main flow and becomes isolated

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Define Helical Flow?

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The corkscrew pattern of flow found in a river

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What is Sediment?

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Material such as sand and clay that is carried by a river

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What is a Levée?

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River embankments built as a flood defence

24
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What are Mudflats?

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Flat coastal areas formed when mud is deposited by rivers and coasts

25
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What is a Saltmarsh?

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An area of coastal grassland which is regularly flooded by seawater

26
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Define Discharge?

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The amount of water flowing in a river at any one point

27
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Can you label a Flood Hydrograph?

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28
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What is Lag Time?

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The time between peak rainfall and peak discharge on a hydrograph

29
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Can you draw and label a meander cross section?

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30
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Can you draw and albel the formation of an Ox Bow Lake?

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31
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Can you draw and albel the formation of a Waterfall?

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32
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What is a Hydrograph?

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A graph showing how a river responds to a storm, showing the rainfall and discharge over time

33
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What is Antecedent Rainfall?

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The amount of rain that has already fallen prior to a specific event

34
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What is a Confluence?

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The point where two rivers meet

35
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What is Hard Engineering?

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Building structures to deal with natural hazards, such as dams to prevent flooding

36
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What is Soft Engineering?

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Involves adapting to natural hazards and working with nature to limit damage. For example, planting trees to limit flood risk

37
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Define Hydraulic Action?

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Fast flowing water pushes air into cracks and the force of this causes the channel to break up over time

38
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Define Abrasion?

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Sand and pebbles are dragged along the river bed, wearing it away

39
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Define Attrition?

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Rocks and stones wear each other away as they knock together

40
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Define Solution?

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Rocks such as limestone are dissolved in acid rainwater

41
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List the factors affecting river discharge?

A

Rock and soil type

Land use

Rainfall

Weather conditions

Relief

42
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Define interception?

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Leaves and branches catch rainfall and prevent it from running into the river

43
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Define Surface Run Off?

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Water runs over the top of ground which is very hard or very wet

44
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Define Infiltration?

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Rain that soaks into the top layers of the soil and rock below

45
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Define Throughflow?

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Wtare that flows through the soil below the surface

46
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Define Groundwater?

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Wtaer that is stored deep underground in the rock

47
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Define Groundwater Flow?

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Wtare that very slowly moves through underground rocks

48
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What is Impermeable Rock?

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Rock which water is not able to flow through

49
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What is Permeable Rock?

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Rock which water is able to flow through

50
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What is the Water Table?

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The level at which water is stored in rocks below the surface

51
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What are the 4 Physical causes of flooding?

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Heavy Rainfall

Prolonged Rainfall

Snowmelt

Relief

52
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What are the 2 Human causes of flooding?

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Building Construction

Deforestation

53
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Can you label a cross section of levee formation?

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54
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Can you identify the features of a floodplain?

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