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Rivers Flashcards
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- 1What are the 3 parts of the Hydrological Cycle?Sea, Land & Atmosphere
- 2What is Evaporation?When water is heated and turns into water vapour
- 3What is Transpiration?Evaporation of water from plants
- 4What is Evapotranspiration?Both Evaporation and Transpiration happening at the same time
- 5What happens when the water vapour condenses?Clouds are formed
Water falls over the land as precipitation - 6What is Infiltration?When water soaks into the soil
- 7What is Percolation?When water moves vertically down through soil and rock
- 8What is Throughflow?When water in the soil moves downhill
- 9What is Groundwater Flow?When water in rock flows downhill
- 10What is Surface Runoff?When water flows overground
- 11What is Channel Flow?The flow of water in a river
- 12What is Channel Storage?When water is held in a river
- 13What is Groundwater Storage?When water is stored in soil and rock
- 14A rock that stores water is called an...Aquifer
- 15What is Interception Storage?When water lands on things such as leaves and doesn't hit the ground
- 16What is Surface Storage?When water is held in things like lakes, reservoirs and puddles
- 17What is a Drainage Basin?The area of land drained by a river
- 18What is a Tributary?A smaller river that joins a main river
- 19What is a Confluence?The point where two rivers join
- 20What are the Inputs to a Drainage Basin?Precipitation
- 21What are the flows in a Drainage Basin?Surface Runoff
Channel Flow
Infiltration
Throughflow
Groundwater Flow
Percolation - 22What are the Stores in a Drainage Basin?Channel Storage
Groundwater Storage
Interception Storage
Surface Storage - 23What are the Outputs in a Drainage Basin?Evaporation
Transpiration
River flow into the sea - 24How are Drainage Basins separated?By a watershed
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- Flashcards for the 'Rivers' section of Theme 1 - GCSE Geography
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