1. Rivers Revision Booklet

2. Draw a sketch of the water cycle: make sure you can use the correct terms including precipitation, surface run off, impermeable and permeable:

3. The Drainage Basin

4. Describe the four different types of erosion:1 2 3 4

5. 1 2 3 What are the three types of weathering? What is mass movement?
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Explain soil creep and slumping:
Soil creep
Slumping

6. Upper course of a river:
Describe the characteristics of the Upper course of the River: include speed shape and size.
Using a diagram in the space above – explain the formation of a waterfall. Make sure you explain the processes that go on and number your annotations to show the order that the processes happen.

7. Middle course of a river:
Describe the characteristics of the middle course of the River: include speed shape and size.
Draw the formation of a meander and annotate your diagram:

8. Lower course of a river:
Describe the characteristics of the lower course of the River: include speed shape and size.
Draw the formation of a ox-bow and annotate your diagram:
Draw the formation of levees and annotate your diagram: also showing the floodplain

9. There are physical and human causes of flooding:
Give three of each that could be the structure of a 6 mark question if asked:
PHYSICAL
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HUMAN
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10. In order to minimise flooding we predict and prepare: Give examples of how we do each:
Forecasting and education
Planning and building design
Hard and soft engineering techniques
6 mark Q:
Explain the management techniques used on a river you have studied:
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11. 6 mark questions;
So far, 6 mark questions have been testing your knowledge of flooding and flood management;
June 2010
Choose a river you have studied. Explain how that river is managed
January 2011
Explain the effects of flooding on people and the environment
June 2011
Explain how the effects of river flooding can be reduced