KS3 Rivers

What is erosion?

• The wearing away of the landscape

• The movement of sediment

• The transport of sediment

• The physical landscape

Where along the river are V Shaped Valleys found?

• Lower Course

• Upper Course

• Middle Course

• Mouth

What processes from a meander?

• Transportation and Deposition

• Weathering and Deposition

• Mass Movement and Deposition

• Erosion and Deposition

What is the river source?

• The start of a river

• The middle of a river

• The end of a river

• Ketchup and mustard

Which of the following is NOT a type of erosion...

• Solution

• Abrasion

• Hydraulic Action

• Saltation

Attrition is...

• Rocks and pebbles bashing into each other

• The force of compressed air

• Water freezing in cracks in the rock

• Boulders rolling along the river bed

Select the correct spelling...

• Abraysion

• Abrashion

• Abrasion

• Abrasian

Abrasion is...

• Rocks scraping the river bed and banks like sandpaper

• Rocks dissolving in acidic water

• The bouncing of pebbles

• Pebbles bashing together and getting smaller and rounder

Which of the following is NOT a UK river...

• Tees

• Severn

• Trent

• Volga

Waterfalls form when...

• There is a layer of hard rock above soft rock

• The river loses energy

• The river deposits its load

• There is only hard rock