River processes quiz

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GCSE Geography Quiz sobre River processes quiz, criado por MARINA POLITIS em 12-05-2014.
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Resumo de Recurso

Questão 1

Questão
What conditions must be present for a delta to form at the mouth of a river?
Responda
  • slow current, strong tides, river carrying a lot of sediment
  • slow current, weak tides, river carrying a lot of sediment
  • strong current, weak currents , river carrying a lot of sediment

Questão 2

Questão
In what course of the river are V-shaped valleys present?
Responda
  • Upper course
  • Middle course
  • Lower course

Questão 3

Questão
Where is the flow of water fastest in a meander?
Responda
  • The inside
  • The outside
  • The centre

Questão 4

Questão
What are the river landforms present in the middle course of a river?
Responda
  • Lateral erosion and deposition helps create meanders, oxbow lakes, floodplains and levees
  • Vertical erosion causes V-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, gorges and waterfalls.
  • Floodplains, levees and meanders.

Questão 5

Questão
What is a plunge pool?
Responda
  • A pool of water formed by excessive rainfall.
  • A pool formed when water erodes backwards into an area of soft rock as water and rock swirl around.
  • Holes in cliffs formed when rain erodes the landscape.

Questão 6

Questão
Define interlocking spurs:
Responda
  • As the river erodes the landscape in the upper course, it winds and bends to avoid areas of hard rock. This creates interlocking spurs, which look a bit like the interlocking parts of a zip.
  • Small cliffs which the river cannot erode blocking the view up and down the valley. The cliffs serve as flood-protection.
  • Areas of impermeable soil which are distinctive within the landscape.

Questão 7

Questão
When a river runs over alternating layers of hard and soft rock what is created?
Responda
  • Oxbow lake
  • Waterfall
  • V-shaped valley

Questão 8

Questão
What features are created when a river erodes laterally creating large sweeping bends in the river channel?
Responda
  • Levees
  • Meanders
  • Oxbow lakes

Questão 9

Questão
When alluvium (silt) builds up on the banks of a river, what are formed?
Responda
  • deltas
  • Slipe-off slopes
  • levees

Questão 10

Questão
How many courses are rivers divided into?
Responda
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3

Questão 11

Questão
How many courses are rivers divided into?
Responda
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3

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