Formations, case studies, definitions... everything you need to know for the Water on the Land unit of AQA GCSE Geography
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What is erosion?
What are the types of erosion?
What is hydraulic action?
What is abrasion?
What is attrition?
What is solution?
What is transportation?
What are the kinds of transportation?
What is traction?
What is saltation?
What is suspension?
What is solution?
What is deposition?
Draw a river's long profile
Draw the changes of a river's cross profile
What are the characteristics of a river in it's upper course?
What are the characteristics of a river in it's middle course?
What are the characteristics of a river in it's lower course?
Formation of a Waterfall
Diagrams for formation of a waterfall
Formation of a gorge
Formation of a meander
Diagram for formation of a meander
Formation of an ox-bow lake
Diagram for formation of an ox bow lake
Formation of a floodplain and levees
Diagram for formation of floodplain and levees
How does rainwater travel through/on the ground?
Describe and label a storm hydrograph
What factors affect river discharge? Why do rivers flood?
Are floods getting more frequent?
Cockermouth flooding of 2009
What were the causes?
What happened?
Cockermouth flooding of 2009
What were the social effects?
Cockermouth flooding of 2009
What were the economic effects?
Cockermouth flooding of 2009
What were the short term responses?
Cockermouth flooding of 2009
What were the long term responses?
Bangladesh flooding of 2004
What were the causes?
Bangladesh flooding of 2004
What were the effects?
Bangladesh flooding 2004
What were the short term responses?
Bangladesh flooding 2004
What were the long term responses?
What is hard engineering?
What kind of hard engineering can be used for rivers?
Three Gorges Dam China
Where is it?
Three Gorges Dam China
What are the benefits?
Three Gorges Dam China
What are the issues?
What is soft engineering?
Examples of soft engineering
Brisbane Floodplain zoning
Why does is the UK using more water?
How can this be dealt with?
Water are water conservation tactics?
Keilder Water Reservoir, Northumberland
Where is it? How many people does it supply? What's the daily supply?
Keilder Water Reservoir, Northumberland
What are the advantages?
Keilder Water Reservoir, Northumberland
What are the disadvantages?
Where has flooding occurred in the UK in the past 20 years
