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Water on the Land Flashcards

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What is the definition of erosion?

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The wearing away of rock and soil along the river banks and beds or breaking down of rock particles carried by the river

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What is transportation?

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the movement of eroded material downstream. (From point of erosion to point of deposition)

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What is deposition?

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When a river loses energy, it will drop/deposit some of its load (often near the mouth of the river)

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What is hydraulic action?

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The sheer force of the river hitting the bed and banks (causing erosion)

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What is abrasion?

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The load continually hits the river bed/banks, causing material to break off

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What is corrosion?

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Erosion which occurs when the river flows over certain types of rock (e.g. chalk or limestone)

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What is attrition?

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Stones/boulders, carried by the river, hit against each other and erode eachother

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What is traction?

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The heaviest stones in the load are rolled along the river bed by the river

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What is saltation?

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Stones/pebbles are bounced along the river bed, they cannot be carried for long

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What is suspension?

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Particles of rock are suspended in the river and transported in this way

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What is solution?

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Dissolved load carried by the river (not visible) only certain types of rock (e.g. chalk or limestone)

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What is the discharge?

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The amount of water in the river channel

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What attributes of the river increase downstream?

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Discharge, channel width, channel depth, speed, load quantity

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What attributes of the river decrease downstream?

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Load particle size, channel bed roughness, gradient of land

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Why does channel width increase downstream?

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There is less vertical erosion and more lateral erosion

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Why does the channel depth increase downstream?

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Although vertical erosion is less dominant it still continues to occur downstream

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How does the shape of the valley change downstream?

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The valley goes from a ‘v-shape’ to a ‘u-shape’

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18
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Where are waterfalls usually found?

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In the upper course of the river

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What is water stress?

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Water stress is the difference between the rainfall and the demand for water (when there is an inadequate supply)

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What is an are of deficit water supply?

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An area with higher demand than supply of water

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What is an area of surplus water supply?

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An area with higher supply than demand of water

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22
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How has the water usage per household changed?

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It has risen by 70% over the last 30 years

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What is the source?

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The beginning of the river

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What is a confluence?

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Where two rivers meet

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What is a watershed?

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An area of high land between two drainage basins

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What is a tributary?

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A small river or stream that flows into a larger river

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What is a drainage basin?

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The area drained by a river and its tributaries

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What is precipitation?

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Any form of water entering the basin from the atmosphere (rain/hail/snow etc)

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What is transpiration?

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Water released by plants during respiration

30
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What is surface storage?

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Where water is stored on the Earth’s surface as lakes, rivers or surface depression storage (puddles)

31
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What is surface runoff/overland flow?

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Water flowing over the surface of the ground under the influence of gravity

32
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What is infiltration?

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The downward movement of water from the surface through into the soil

33
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What is soil water storage?

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Where water is stored in the soil

34
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What is through flow?

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Where water flows through the soil under the influence of gravity, to drain into the nearest river or lake

35
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What is groundwater storage?

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Water which is stored in porous/pervious rock

36
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What is groundwater flow?

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Water which flows through the rock layer parallel to the surface

37
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What is percolation?

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Water flowing through the rock layer into the groundwater store

38
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What is the water table?

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The line that divides the saturated rock/soil from the unsaturated rock/soil

39
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When did the Bangladesh floods occur?

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July 2004

40
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Which three river flow through Bangladesh?

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The Ganges, The Meghna and The Brahmaputra

41
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What human factors mean that Bangladesh is susceptible to floods?

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Deforestation, irrigation for farming, global warming, built-up areas and poorly maintained embankments (on the river)

42
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What physical factors mean that Bangladesh is susceptible to floods?

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70% Bangladesh under 1 m above sea level, 10% land area is lakes or rivers, heavy monsoon rains, tropical storms

43
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How much of the Bangladesh was flooded in 2004?

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60% country and 40% of the capital Dhaka

44
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How may people were affected by the 2004 Bangladesh floods?

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750 direct deaths, 20 million homeless and secondarily 100,000 in Dhaka suffered from diarrhoea

45
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How much damage was caused by the 2004 Bangladesh floods?

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$7 billion of damage, 0.5 million livestock lost and 2 million tonnes of rice crop destroyed

46
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When were the Tewkesbury floods?

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July 2007

47
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Which rivers flow through this area in Gloucestershire?

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The Severn and The Old Avon

48
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What human factors resulted in the Tewkesbury floods?

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Bad flood defences, new building developments built on floodplains

49
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What physical factors resulted in the Tewkesbury floods?

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2 months of rain fell in 14 hours, June and July were the wettest moths on record (since 1766), jet stream was located further south than usual, Tewkesbury is on a confluence and a floodplain

50
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How many people were affected by the Tewkesbury floods?

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2 people died, 350,000 people were left without water, 10,000 motorists stranded on the M5, 500 stranded at Gloucestershire train station

51
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What is the space between peak rainfall and peak discharge? On what graph is it shown?

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The lag time, and it is shown on a flood hydrograph

52
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What is different about a flash flood on a flood hydrograph?

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A flash flood has a higher peak rainfall and peak discharge. It also has a shorter lag time

53
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What is the “cap rock” on a waterfall?

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A layer of resistant rock (an overhang) over which the river flows

54
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Why is an overhang created on a waterfall?

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The rock underneath the “cap rock” is softer; so is preferentially eroded, which undercuts the harder rock (forming an overhang)

55
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What is found in front of a waterfall?

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A gorge (of recession)

56
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How is a waterfall (and gorge of recession) formed?

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Step, plunge pool, overhang, overhang collapse, waterfall recedes (gorge of recession), process repeats

57
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How is a “step” (in terms of waterfalls) created?

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River runs over horizontal (or slightly dipping) beds of hard and soft rock. As river reaches softer rock it is preferentially eroded, creating a step.

58
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How are meanders formed?

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Water has lateral energy, fast outer flow erodes, slow inner flow deposits; this forms meanders

59
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How is an ox-bow lake formed?

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As a meander continues to become more extreme it eventually forms a swan’s neck. Eventually the two sides meet- cutting off a u-shaped lake; an ox-bow lake

60
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How are meander scars formed?

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When a more direct river course is created- and an ox-bow lake is formed, the lake has very little water supply- so eventually dries out- leaving a meander scar

61
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Can you name land-form from each part of a river’s course?

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Upper: waterfall, middle: ox-bow lake, lower: floodplain

62
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What is channel storage?

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Where water is stored in the river channel

63
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What is channel flow?

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Where water is carried in the river channel to a confluence or to the river mouth

64
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What is interception?

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Where water is prevented from hitting the ground by trees/vegetation

65
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What is evaporation?

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What is heated and transforms into water vapour

66
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Why were the Elan valley dams introduced?

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To supply the working population of Birmingham with clean water (due to industrial revolutions during 19th C)

67
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When did building work begin for the Elan valley dams?

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1893

68
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What was the average rainfall in the Elan valley?

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During the late 1800 s, it was about 1830 mm annually

69
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When were the Elan valley dams opened?

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21st July 1904

70
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When was the capacity of the Elan valley dams increased?

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Claerwan dam was built doubling capacity to 345.5 million litres a day between 1948 and 1952

GCSE Geography (6 decks)

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