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The document outlines the features of rivers, including their source, interlocking spurs, gorges, waterfalls, and meanders, as well as terms related to river systems such as tributaries and drainage basins. It describes the three main sections of a river's course: upper, middle, and lower, detailing characteristics of each section. Additionally, it provides definitions for key terms related to river geography.

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The document outlines the features of rivers, including their source, interlocking spurs, gorges, waterfalls, and meanders, as well as terms related to river systems such as tributaries and drainage basins. It describes the three main sections of a river's course: upper, middle, and lower, detailing characteristics of each section. Additionally, it provides definitions for key terms related to river geography.

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Rivers

Name the features


● 1. Source: the point at which the
river starts.

● 2. Interlocking spurs: where the river


winds between ridges.

● 3. Gorge: deep valley caused by


wearing back of a waterfall.

● 4. Waterfall: often where the river


crosses a band of harder rock.

● 5. 'V' shaped valley: produced in


upper course because the river cuts
down more quickly than the
surrounding slopes are eroded.
Upper course features
V shaped Valley
Name the features
● 6. Meander: the river starts to
erode from side to side.

● 7. River cliff: the river moves


faster on the outside of the bend
and cuts into the valley side. The
erosion undercuts the ground
causing it to collapse, leaving a
cliff.

● 8. River beach (Slip-off slope):


the river moves more slowly on
the inside of the bend. It cannot
carry the larger pebbles and
these are dropped here.
Name the features
● 9. Ox-bow lake: during floods the
river cuts through the neck of a large
meander. The outside bend is left as
a shallow lake.

● 10. Flood plain: the river is flowing in


a very wide, flat valley. When it
floods, it spreads over the flood
plain.

● 11. Levée: during floods the


overflowing river is slowed as it
leaves its bed. Silt is deposited along
the banks first. Over the years the
deposits build up into high ridges.

● 12. Estuary: the open mouth of the


river, where it meets the sea.
River channel

● A river is fresh water flowing across the


surface of the land, usually to the sea. It
flows in a channel. The bottom of the
channel is called the bed and the sides
of the channel are called the banks.
River terms
Source - The source is the beginning of a stream or
river.
Mouth - The mouth is the end of a river, where it empties
into a large body of water.
Tributary - A tributary is a river or stream that flows into
another stream, river, or lake.
Confluence – to the point where a tributary joins a larger
river.
Drainage basin – the area drained by a river and its
tributaries.
Watershed – the boundary of the drainage basin which is
usually a ridge of high land.
Give the meanings of these
words
SOURCE

WATERSHED

TRIBUTARY

CONFLUENCE

MOUTH

RIVER CHANNEL

DRAINAGE BASIN

DELTA
Answers
The place where a river starts, usually in
SOURCE high ground. Can be in the form of a
spring, lake or glacier.

The area of highland which forms the edge


WATERSHED
of a drainage basin.
A small stream which flows into a larger
TRIBUTARY one, adding water to it and making it
bigger.
An area of land drained by a river and its
DRAINAGE BASIN
tributaries.
The end of a river's course, where it flows
MOUTH
into the sea or a lake.
The space between the banks of a river
CHANNEL
where it flows.
The point where a small stream flows into
CONFLUENCE the main channel, or where 2 small
streams join.

A landform where the mouth of a river flows


DELTA into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake
or another river.
Fill in the spaces putting in the missing
terms and the missing definitions
The place where a river starts, usually in
high ground. Can be in the form of a
spring, lake or glacier.

WATERSHED

TRIBUTARY

An area of land drained by a river and its


tributaries.

MOUTH

CHANNEL

The point where a small stream flows into


the main channel, or where 2 small
streams join.

DELTA
3 stages of the river

The journey of river from source (where the


river begins) to mouth (where the river ends) is
sometimes called the course of the river. The
course of a river can be divided into three
main sections:

● upper course
● middle course
● lower course
Rivers always flow downwards from
highland areas to lowland areas, through
the upper, middle, and finally the lower
course.
Upper course
The land is steep here.

River has very little water.

River is narrow and shallow.

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