Quick Questions: Rivers
1. What does the hydrological cycle show?
2. Describe three flows in the hydrological cycle.
3. Describe three stores in the hydrological cycle.
4. What is a drainage basin?
5. Name two outputs from a drainage basin system.
6. What happens at a confluence?
7. Describe freeze-thaw weathering.
8. What is biological weathering?
9. What does a river’s long profile show?
10. Describe the cross profile of a river’s lower course.
11. What is corrosion?
12. Name two processes of transportation.
13. When does deposition occur?
14. Where do waterfalls form? Name an example.
15. How is a gorge formed?
16. Why do rivers have to wind around interlocking spurs.
17. What is a flood plain?
18. Describe how levees are formed.
19. Name one type of delta and describe what it looks like.
20. Where is the current fastest on a meander.
21. Name the landform created when a meander is cut off by deposition.
22. What do the contour lines on a map show?
23. Give two pieces of map evidence for a waterfall.
24. Give two pieces of map evidence for a river’s lower course.
25. Describe three landforms in the valley of a river you have studied.
26. What is river discharge?
27. How does impermeable rock affect river discharge?
28. Describe one physical cause of flooding.
29. Describe one human cause of flooding.
30. Name a hard engineering strategy and describe its benefits.
31. Name a soft engineering strategy and describe its disadvantages.
32. Why are hard engineering strategies usually less sustainable than soft engineering strategies?
33. a) Name a river in an MEDC or an LEDC which has been affected by flooding.
b) Describe the primary effects of a flood on that river.
c) Describe two flood protection measures that are used for that river.
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