Plains and Rivers

Question 1

What is a plain?

Answer 1

A nearly, extensive stretch of land

Question 2

Where can plains be found?

Answer 2

Coast or inland

Question 3

What is the most populated plain?

Answer 3

Indo-Gangetic plain

Question 4

Give an example of a grassland.

Answer 4

Great Plains

Question 5

Give an example of a desert plain.

Answer 5

Sahara Desert

Question 6

Give an example of a forested plain.

Answer 6

Tabasco Plain

Question 7

What are tundras?

Answer 7

Frozen plains that have vegetation and some of it is able to bear cold which might have special type of mosses or shrubs

Question 8

What is a river system made up of?

Answer 8

Source, stream, tributaries, distributaries, and mouth

Question 9

What is a river source?

Answer 9

Place where river begins its flow

Question 10

What are tributaries?

Answer 10

The smaller streams that join the main river

Question 11

What are distributaries?

Answer 11

Smaller channels that are formed after some rivers break up

Question 12

What ends a river system?

Answer 12

Drainage basin

Question 13

What is a drainage basin?

Answer 13

Area of land drained by river and its tributaries

Question 14

What is a river course?

Answer 14

Path taken by river as it flows from the river source to the river mouth

Question 15

Name features of the upper course

Answer 15

steep gradient of land, small volume of water and rough river bed

Question 16

Name features of the middle course

Answer 16

gentle gradient of land, large volume of water and less rough river bed

Question 17

Name features of the lower course

Answer 17

very gentle gradient of land, largest volume of water and smooth river bed

Question 18

What is abrasion

Answer 18

mechanical scraping of rock surface in river channel

Question 19

What is hydraulic action?

Answer 19

powerful force of water that surges into cracks and break down river bed

Question 20

What is solution?

Answer 20

action of minerals dissolving and being carried away as solution

Question 21

What is attrition?

Answer 21

collision of rocks that makes them break up into smaller fragments

Question 22

What is traction?

Answer 22

river load rolls and slides along river bed

Question 23

What is saltation?

Answer 23

refers to way river load hop and bounce along river bed

Question 24

What is suspension?

Answer 24

refers to way small particles are carried along river bed

Question 25

What is solution? (transportation)

Answer 25

refers to way minerals dissolve and carried along river bed

Question 26

What is a waterfall?

Answer 26

vertical flow of water over very steep slope

Question 27

What is a meander?

Answer 27

curve or bend in river

Question 28

How is an oxbow lake formed?

Answer 28

when neck of meander is cut off

Question 29

How is a floodplain formed?

Answer 29

formed when river deposits sediments on flat land during a flood

Question 30

Where is a delta formed?

Answer 30

river mouth

Question 31

How does a delta form?

Answer 31

starts to form when river deposits sediments at river mouth

Question 32

How are rivers used?

Answer 32

1. transportation 2. farming 3. power 4. food supply 5. breeding ground for animals 6. habitats

Question 33

What are longitudes?

Answer 33

are imaginary lines that run vertically

Question 34

What are latitudes?

Answer 34

imaginary lines drawn parallel to Equator

Question 35

What is the International Date Line?

Answer 35

imaginary line that lies in Pacific Ocean

Question 36

Where are landscape photographs taken?

Answer 36

ground level

Question 37

Where are aerial photographs taken?

Answer 37

above ground

Question 38

What are satellites?

Answer 38

spacecrafts that orbit Earth

Question 39

What are bar graphs?

Answer 39

graph that has two axes, x-axis used to show time period, and y-axis

Question 40

What are line graphs?

Answer 40

graph that had x-axis for time period and y-axis for subject of measurement