Features of a River
Subjects / Geography / Rivers, Coasts and Landforms
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There is much truth in the proverb 'follow the river and you will find the sea'. The fundamental aim of any river is to reach its base level, usually recognised as sea level. Most landscapes owe both their existence and their continued moulding to the work done by rivers. This title focuses on the route of a river and the landforms it creates. On its journey from source to mouth, some of the typical features you may find include v-shaped valleys, interlocking spurs, waterfalls and gorges, as well as meanders, oxbow lakes, floodplains, levees and deltas. This title also looks at one river in particular and analyses its features - the Mississippi river.
| Author: | Sarah Lowe | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Stuart Blackburn | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-056-1 |
Chapters
- V-shaped Valleys and Interlocking Spurs
- Waterfalls and Gorges
- Meanders and Oxbow Lakes
- Floodplains and Levees
- Deltas
- River Processes
- Features of a Drainage/River Basin
- River Basin Management
- A Case Study of the Mississippi River
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
- Describe the changes in width, depth, discharge and gradient of a river valley as it moves from its source to its mouth
- Description of the landforms specified, and explanation of their formation in terms of the processes involved
- How a river profile changes downstream and the relative importance of the processes at work such as the typical V shaped valley in the upper course where vertical corrasion dominates.
- How are these landforms shaped by the effects of process, structure and time?
- How do the processes of erosion, transport and deposition contribute to the development of distinctive landforms?
- How do these processes contribute to the development of distinctive landforms?
- How does a river deposit material?
- How does a river erode?
- How does a river transport?
- Recognise and describe fluvial features on Ordnance Survey maps and photographs
- The landforms and processes associated with rivers and their valleys
- What is meant by process of deposition?
- What is meant by process of erosion?
- What is meant by process of transport?
- What is meant by processes of erosion, transport and deposition?
- What landforms are produced?
- What landforms give a river valley its distinctive character?
Titles
- Characteristics of a drainage basin
- Description and explanation of flood plains - meanders and oxbow lakes
- Description and explanation of V-shaped valleys - interlocking spurs waterfalls and gorges
- River deposition
- River erosion
- River erosion, transport and deposition processes and the river features they produce
- River transportation
- The change in the characteristics of a river and its valley between source and mouth.
- The definitions of 'watershed' and 'drainage basin'
- The deposition processes associated with rivers and their valleys
- The earth's crust is modified by fluvial processes which result in distinctive landforms
- The erosion processes associated with rivers and their valleys
- The formation of interlocking spurs, waterfalls, meanders, ox-bow lakes, flood plains, levees and deltas.
- The lowland river landforms associated with rivers and their valleys
- The transportation processes associated with rivers and their valleys
- The upland river landforms associated with rivers and their valleys
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - River Deposition
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - River Erosion
- Within the hydrological system, processes operate which contribute to the development of distinctive landforms - River Transportation
Chapters
- A study of distinctive landforms and their formation by the above processes
- A study to identify and distinguish between processes of deposition
- A study to identify and distinguish between processes of erosion
- A study to identify and distinguish between processes of weathering
- abrasion
- attrition
- Changes in characteristics such as width, discharge and gradient of the channel, and in the cross-section of the valley
- Describe and explain the formation of deltas
- Describe and explain the formation of floodplains
- Describe and explain the formation of interlocking spurs
- Describe and explain the formation of levees
- Describe and explain the formation of meanders
- Describe and explain the formation of ox-bow lakes
- Description and explanation of attrition
- Description and explanation of corrasion (abrasion)
- Description and explanation of hydraulic action
- Description and explanation of low energy conditions associated with rivers
- Description and explanation of rolling
- Description and explanation of saltation
- Description and explanation of solution
- Description and explanation of suspension
- drainage basin
- flood plains
- Formation of a floodplain
- Formation of a meander
- gorges
- hydraulic erosion
- interlocking spurs
- levees
- Long and cross profiles
- meanders
- ox bow lakes
- oxbow lakes
- ox-bow lakes
- Processes of deposition
- Processes of erosion
- Processes of erosion, corrasion
- Processes of erosion, corrosion
- Processes of erosion, hydraulic power
- Processes of erosion, solution
- Processes of erosion, suspension
- Processes of transport
- Processes of transport, saltation
- Processes of transport, solution
- Processes of transport, suspension
- Processes of transport, traction
- River channel changes downstream - width, depth, discharge and load
- river deposition
- saltation
- solution
- suspension
- The characteristics and formation of deltas
- The characteristics and formation of flood plains
- The characteristics and formation of gorges
- The characteristics and formation of levees
- The characteristics and formation of meanders
- The characteristics and formation of ox-bow lakes
- The characteristics and formation of waterfalls
- the part played by the process of river deposition in the formation of the Rhine floodplain
- the part played by the process of river erosion in the formation of the Grand Canyon gorge
- traction
- Valley cross sections
- V-shaped valleys
- waterfalls
- watershed
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