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What is a drainage basin
Whats is the source of a river
What Is the mouth of the river
What is a tributary
What is the watershed
What is a confluence
What are the 3 types of weathering
What are the 4 types of erosion
What are the 4 types of transportation
What are the 2 types of mass movement
What happens to channel width downstream
What happens to velocity downstream
What happens to discharge downstream
What happens to gradient downstream
What river have we looked at to see the river changes downstream
Give examples of an impact the uks weather climate has had on river processes
Give examples of an impact the uks weather and climate has had on landscapes and landforms
Give 2 river landforms found in the upper course
Explain their formation and reference to geology erosion processes
Give 3 river landforms found in the middle or lower course
Explain their formation and reference to depositional and erosion processes
Give 2 river landforms found in the lower course
Explain their formation and reference to depositional and or erosion processes
Give an example of how urbanisation can affect rivers such as the river dee.
Give an example of how agriculture has affected the river dee.
Get how industry has effected rivers such as the river dee
What is the difference between physical and human causes of flooding
Explain how heavy rainfall increases the risk of flooding
Explain how impermeable rock can increase risk of flooding
Explain how increased temperature after snowfall can increase risk of flooding
Explain how a long dry period of weather can increase the risk of flooding.
Explain how river beds becoming silted up can increase risk of flooding.
Explain how steep valley sides can increase risk of flooding
Explain how deforestation can increase risk of flooding.
Explain how building on a floodplain increases risk of flooding.
Explain how farmers plowing up and down slopes instead of around the hillside.
Explain how bursting a dam can increase flood risk
Give three main reason why there is a increasing flood risk in the UK.
What is a storm hydrograph
On a storm hydrograph what does a rising limb represent
What is the lag time
What does the falling limb represent
Give an example of how floods can affect people and the environment
Give some located examples of major floods in the UK and their specific effects
What is the difference between hard and soft engineering
Give examples of hard engineering and techiniques
Give examples of soft engineering techniques
Give examples of how land use can be managed to reduce risk of flooding
