The cards Question What is the hydrological cycle? Tap to flip Answer The continuous movement of water between the ocean, land, rivers and atmosphere. Question What name is given to the movement of water between stores in the hydrological cycle? Tap to flip Answer Transfers. Question Give one example of a major store of water in the hydrological cycle. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: the ocean, ice caps, groundwater, surface water or the atmosphere. Question What is a drainage basin? Tap to flip Answer The area of land drained by a river and its tributaries. Question What is the boundary of a drainage basin called? Tap to flip Answer The watershed. Question What is a tributary? Tap to flip Answer A smaller river that joins the main river. Question What is a confluence? Tap to flip Answer The point where two rivers meet. Question What is the mouth of a river? Tap to flip Answer Where the river enters the ocean. Question Is a drainage basin an open or a closed system? Tap to flip Answer An open system. Question Does a river always have only one source? Tap to flip Answer No. A drainage basin can contain many different sources. Question Give one of the four types of river erosion. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition or solution. Question Which type of erosion happens when rocks and sediment carried by a river hit its bed and banks and break pieces off? Tap to flip Answer Abrasion. Question Give one of the four types of river transportation. Tap to flip Answer Any one of: traction, solution, suspension or saltation. Question When does a river deposit its load? Tap to flip Answer When it has lost its energy and can no longer carry its load. Question In which direction is erosion usually in the upper course of a river? Tap to flip Answer Vertical. Question What is a v-shaped valley? Tap to flip Answer A narrow, steep-sided valley with a river at the bottom, caused by vertical erosion. Question What is a gorge? Tap to flip Answer A very narrow valley with steep-sided rocky walls. Question Why does a river not have much energy in its upper course? Tap to flip Answer There is not a lot of water in the river there. Question How do a river's gradient and channel change as it flows downstream? Tap to flip Answer The gradient becomes flatter and the river becomes wider and deeper. Question What is a meander? Tap to flip Answer A winding bend in a river. Question How does an oxbow lake form? Tap to flip Answer A meander loop is cut off after a flood, leaving a curved lake. Question What is a floodplain? Tap to flip Answer A flat area of land on either side of a river that floods in periods of high river flow. Question What is an estuary? Tap to flip Answer The tidal mouth of a river, where it meets the sea or ocean. Question Are levees only man-made? Tap to flip Answer No. They can be built as a flood defence but can also form naturally. Question What does the Bradshaw model show? Tap to flip Answer How the physical characteristics of a typical river change, in theory, from source to mouth. Question What is a river's bedload? Tap to flip Answer Material such as stones, boulders and sand that the river erodes, transports and deposits. Question What is a channel profile? Tap to flip Answer A graph showing the shape of a river channel as if sliced from bank to bank. Question Should points on a channel profile be joined with a ruler? Tap to flip Answer No. They should be joined with a slight curve to show the channel's shape more accurately. Question What decides how strong a correlation on a scattergraph is? Tap to flip Answer How close the points are to the line of best fit (not the line's angle). Question What is extrapolation? Tap to flip Answer Estimating a value by extending the correlation beyond the known data. Question What is interpolation? Tap to flip Answer Estimating a value in a data set from the data on either side of it. Question When does a river flood? Tap to flip Answer When it receives more water than its channel has capacity for. Question What are the main physical causes of river flooding? Tap to flip Answer Heavy and prolonged rainfall. Question What are the main human causes of river flooding? Tap to flip Answer Deforestation and urbanisation. Question In geography, what is relief? Tap to flip Answer The physical shape of the land, including its height and steepness. Question What is GIS? Tap to flip Answer A geographic information system: a computer system that captures, analyses and displays geographic data. Question Which government body in England manages flood risk and collects data to monitor it? Tap to flip Answer The Environment Agency. Question Can flooding happen far from rivers? Tap to flip Answer Yes, e.g. after heavy rainfall, when the ground cannot absorb water fast enough and surface water builds up. Question What is hard engineering in flood management? Tap to flip Answer Building fixed structures to help prevent river flooding. Question What is soft engineering in flood management? Tap to flip Answer Working with nature to reduce the risk of river flooding. Question How can channel straightening, dredging or embankments make flooding worse downstream? Tap to flip Answer The channel holds more water and the flow speeds up. Question What is a stakeholder? Tap to flip Answer Any individual, group or organisation with an interest or concern in a particular area, issue or project. Question What are 'slow the flow' methods? Tap to flip Answer Ways of managing flood risk by reducing the speed and volume of water entering rivers in the upper catchment. Question Which areas are more likely to receive funding for flood protection? Tap to flip Answer Areas of high economic value. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Rivers: How do rivers shape the land? England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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Show the other sources (10) Primary source River management (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Planning river management (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Drainage basins (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source River processes (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The upper course of a river (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The middle and lower course of a river (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Fieldwork: Planning a river enquiry and collecting data (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Fieldwork: Presenting river data (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating river data (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The causes of flooding (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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