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CONDENSATION
LAND
EVAPORATION
SEA
Key Words
EVAPORATION When water vapour changes to liquid (cooling) CONDENSATION Water in any form that falls to earth e.g. rain PRECIPITATION RUN-OFF When the ground water moves through the land When water vapour changes to liquid (warming)
PERCOLATION
GROUND WATER Water that is stored e.g. ground,clouds,air etc. WATER STORES Water that moves directly along the ground without penetrating.
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River Basins
Key Words
Where a river begins is called the source. A small river meeting a larger river is called a tributary. Where the two rivers join is called the confluence Where the river flows into the sea is called the mouth. The area drained by a river is called the drainage basin. The line that separates two drainage basins is called the watershed.
MOUTH
Key Words
Water/debris is forced into cracks
Rocks /stones erode bed and sides of river bank. Rocks get smaller by chemical action
Rocks such as chalk and Limestone
Corrasion
When the river is particularly full, pebbles and boulders are carried along by the water. These rub against the bed and banks of the river and wear them away. The process is called abrasion.
Processes of Erosion
Corrosion
River water sometimes causes some rock to slowly dissolve. (e.g. limestone dissolves in slightly acid water and is carried away in solution (as a liquid) as calcium hydrogen carbonate).
Attrition
The pebbles and small rocks being carried by the riverthe load- collide and rub against each other, breaking up into smaller and smaller pieces. The rough edges become smooth, forming smaller rounded material. Eventually the particles are reduced to sand and silt-sized particles
Hard cap rock Softer rock is undercut by backwash from falling water (resistant)
-smaller pebbles are bounced along the river bed, picked up and then dropped as the flow of the river changes
-the finer sand and silt-sized particles are carried along in the flow, giving the river a brown appearance.
Solution
-minerals, such as limestone and chalk, are dissolved in the water and carried along in the flow, it often cannot be seen.
Outside bend, inside bend, erosion, deposition, river cliff, deepest water and fastest current.
Outside bend, inside bend, erosion, deposition, river cliff, deepest water and fastest current.