Rivers Flashcards

1
Q

What are the stores?

A

Where water remains in one place all the same physical state

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2
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What are flowers?

A

The transfer of water between stars in the same state or involving a change of state

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3
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Give the definition of interception

A

Falling water hitting the Earth’s surface

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4
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Give the definition of if Apple transpiration

A

Transfer of water vapour from the earths surface and from vegetation

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5
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Give the definition of infiltration

A

What are passing into the soil from the Earth’s surface

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6
Q

Give a definition of surface run-off

A

Water flowing across the Earth surface usually is rivers and streams

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7
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Give the definition of through full

A

What are moving slowly through the soil

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8
Q

Give the definition of groundwater flow

A

What are moving through the rocks

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9
Q

Where is the river most steep?

A

In the upper course

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10
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Where is the river least steep?

A

Lower course course

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11
Q

What is the bed load in the upper course

A

Lad some angular stones and boulders

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12
Q

What is this charge?

A

The volume of water flowing through a section of river at a given time it is measured in cubic metres per second

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13
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What is a rivers bedload?

A

The material that is carried by a river by traction of saltation

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14
Q

Where is the discharge highest in the river?

A

Lower calf

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15
Q

What is the bedload of the lower course of the river?

A

Small and rounded

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16
Q

What is the river channel ?

A

The area that contains the flowing water

17
Q

What is the river cliff?

A

A steep sided riverbank

18
Q

What are levies?

A

The riverbank higher than the level of the floodplain

19
Q

What is a pint bar?

A

A shower river beach also called a spell off slip

20
Q

Where is waterflow fastest?

A

On the outside of the bend

21
Q

Where is waterflow slowest?

A

On the inside of the bend

22
Q

When are Oxford lakes created?

A

When the inside bones of a meander join

23
Q

What is bass flow

A

The normal rate of discharge of the river

24
Q

What is storm flow

A

The rate of river discharge flowing a period of abnormally high rainfall

25
Q

What can cause flooding?

A
  • The soil is saturated from previous rainfall
  • removal of forests causes rapid soil erosion
  • a very steep drainage facing a white drainage basin with many tributary is
  • storm drains feed directly into the river system
  • heavy rainfall in early spring