Places In The Uk,Rivers And Floods

Question 1

What’s are the highest land points?

Answer 1

Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons and Exmoor

Question 2

What are the lowest lowlands?

Answer 2

Central lowlands, Norfolk fens and Somerset levels

Question 3

What are the main rivers?

Answer 3

Thames, Severn and Tyne

Question 4

What does interception mean?

Answer 4

When the trees and plants suck up excess water

Question 5

What comes with interception?

Answer 5

Evapotranspiration, when the trees let out water vapour through the stomata.

Question 6

What’s infiltration?

Answer 6

When water gets absorbed by the ground.

Question 7

What’s percolation?

Answer 7

When water gets filtered by aerated soil due to gravity.

Question 8

What’s through flow?

Answer 8

Water flowing horizontally through the soil into the river

Question 9

What’s groundwater flow?

Answer 9

Water flowing horizontally through rock into a river.

Question 10

What’s drainage basin?

Answer 10

An area from which a river gets its water

Question 11

What’s a watershed

Answer 11

The boundary lined by an imaginary line of highland

Question 12

What’s a long profile?

Answer 12

The course of a river from its mouth to source

Question 13

What’s abrasion?

Answer 13

When bedload rub against each other creating sediment

Question 14

What’s traction?

Answer 14

Largest material load are rolled along the river bed. Upper course

Question 15

What’s saltation?

Answer 15

Smaller stones are bounced along the river bed. Upper and middle

Question 16

How are the sides of v-shaped valleys worn away?

Answer 16

By freezethaw and biological weathering.

Question 17

What’s an interlocking spur?

Answer 17

Bits of rock sticking out of the valley that the river has to wind around as they are too hard to erode

Question 18

What’s splash back?

Answer 18

When a waterfalls water splashes the underneath of the slope, creating an undercut.

Question 19

How does the river get more water?

Answer 19

Tributaries join

Question 20

How do meanders start to form?

Answer 20

The river has more energy therefore it starts to meander which causes lateral erosion

Question 21

What’s a slip off slope made up of?

Answer 21

Alluvium

Question 22

What’s the fastest flow called?

Answer 22

Thalweg

Question 23

How are floodplains and levees linked?

Answer 23

They are created by repeated flooding of a river. Also they are co-dependant, meaning they are caused by each other

Question 24

What’s discharge?

Answer 24

The amount of water passing a given point in a river at any moment in time. It’s measured in cumecs

Question 25

What’s the formula for river discharge?

Answer 25

RD= cross sectional area x rivers average velocity

Question 26

What’s a lag time?

Answer 26

Time between peak flow and peak rainfall

Question 27

How are flood likely rivers shown on a graph?

Answer 27

Short lag time and high peak discharge

Question 28

What’s are rivers called when they respond rapidly to rainfall?

Answer 28

Flashy

Question 29

What factors affect rainfall?

Answer 29

Weather, deforestation, relief and rock type

Question 30

What’s relief?

Answer 30

How the land changes in terms of height

Question 31

What’s hard engineering?

Answer 31

Expensive, quality, reliable flood management

Question 32

What’s soft engineering ?

Answer 32

Less intrusive, cheaper, more sustainable

Question 33

Types of hard engineering

Answer 33

Dams, embankments

Question 34

Types of soft engineering

Answer 34

Afforestation, warning system

Question 35

What are some of the ways York adapts to flooding?

Answer 35

There is complex geography so hard engineering is used, such as the Clifton ings which can store 2.3 mil cubic meters of water and lowered peak flood levels by 150 millilitres