Changing River Environments

Worked examples (6)

• 1Define key drainage-basin terms
• 2Source and mouth on a labelled river
• 3Inputs, stores, flows and outputs of a drainage basin
• 4Downstream change and the Bradshaw model
• 5Distinguish the four processes of river erosion
• 6Transport processes and when deposition occurs

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• 1State an opportunity of living near a river (Getting started)
• 2State causes of river flooding (Getting started)
• 3Explain opportunities of a river location (Building confidence)
• 4Explain how urbanisation causes flooding (Building confidence)
• 5Assess: do opportunities outweigh the flood hazard? (Stretch)
• 6Assess: is human activity responsible for flooding? (Stretch)

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• 1Identify an upper-course landform (Getting started)
• 2Describe how a river transports its load (Getting started)
• 3Identify river erosion types (Building confidence)
• 4Formation of a waterfall and gorge (Building confidence)
• 5Explain the formation of a meander (Stretch)
• 6Explain floodplain and levée formation (Stretch)

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• 1Classify the impacts of river flooding
• 2Hard versus soft engineering
• 3Explain the social and economic impacts of flooding
• 4Evaluate dams and reservoirs
• 5Assess a real flood-management scheme
• 6To what extent is soft engineering better?

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• 1Identify human causes of river pollution (2 marks)
• 2Define and explain eutrophication (2 marks)
• 3Explain impacts of river pollution (4 marks)
• 4Compare two pollution-management strategies (6 marks)
• 5Named example: managing a polluted river (7 marks)
• 6Evaluate prevention vs clean-up (7 marks)

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