IIP Geography Y6

Most rain or snow falls over _____

• Oceans and seas

• Land

• Rivers and lakes

• Mountains

When tiny droplets of water in the clouds may turn to ice crystal, which join together and fall to the ground as ____

• Rain

• Snowflakes

• Hail

• Sleet

Where is most of the water in the water cycle stored?

• Rivers and lakes

• Mountains

• Oceans

• Clouds

What are the sources of the river?

• Waterfall, plungepool

• Rain and melted snow

• Springs, lakes and glaciers

• Mountains

Details of the upper course

• flows slowly, valley floor is steep and has narrow sides.

• Flows fast, valley floor is narrow and has steep sides.

• Flows fast, valley floor is steep and has narrow sides.

• Flows slowly, S-shaped meanders and wider valley.

What is a spring?

• A lake with very warm water.

• A place usually on top of a mountain and are usually sources of a river.

• A place where water moving underground finds an opening to the land surface and emerges.

• A slow-moving frozen river

What does impermeable and permeable mean?

• Any material that stays in one place until it is destroyed, weathered or eroded.

• Any material that does not let liquid and gases pass through it.

• Any material that does not stay in one place until it is destroyed, weathered or eroded.

• Any material that lets liquid and gases pass through it.

What is a waterfall?

• A large stream of water falling down a rock.

• A place where a river flows over a steep drop into a pool below.

• The source of the river.

• A S-shaped bend

Details of middle course.

• Valley bottom is flatter, often forms S-shaped meanders across its valley, flows slowly and a wider valley.

• Valley bottom is very flat, forms floodplains and an estuary.

• The middle of the river that is flowing down to an ocean.

• A part of the river that comes from the upper part

Details of the lower course

• Flat valley, huge meanders, flows into oceans and lakes, flows quickly, joins other rivers with it.

• A very deep part of a river that flows into seas.

• Valley is very flat. forms floodplain, sometimes when a river has a large mouth, it is called a estuary, flows into seas, sometimes a lake.

• Shallow parts of the river