Year 3

How do rivers shape the land?

In this lesson, we will be learning about how rivers shape the land. We will be learning about the four types of erosion, the four types of transportation and learning about what deposition is.

Year 3

How do rivers shape the land?

In this lesson, we will be learning about how rivers shape the land. We will be learning about the four types of erosion, the four types of transportation and learning about what deposition is.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. What the four types of erosion are
  2. What the four types of transportation are
  3. What deposition is

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12 Questions

Q1.
What is the source of a river?
Where the river ends its journey by joining an ocean, sea or large lake
Correct answer: Where the river starts its journey, usually in high places such as hills and mountains
Q2.
What is the mouth of a river?
Correct answer: Where the river ends its journey by joining an ocean, sea or large lake
Where the river starts its journey, usually in high places such as hills and mountains
Q3.
Why are rivers important? Tick two.
Correct answer: They are important in the Water Cycle where water is recycled.
They make a place look nicer.
Correct answer: They shape the landscape through erosion, transportation of sediment, and deposition.
Q4.
In which continent is the Colorado River?
Africa
Europe
Correct answer: North America
South America
Q5.
In which continent is the River Nile?
Correct answer: Africa
Europe
North America
South America
Q6.
In which continent is the Amazon River?
Africa
Europe
North America
Correct answer: South America
Q7.
In which continent is the Volga River?
Africa
Correct answer: Europe
North America
South America
Q8.
Where is the mouth of the Volga River?
Andes Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Correct answer: Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Q9.
Where is the mouth of the River Nile?
Andes Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Caspian Sea
Correct answer: Mediterranean Sea
Q10.
Where is the source of the Amazon River (beginning)?
Correct answer: Andes Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Valdai Hills
Q11.
Where is the source of the Volga River (beginning)?
Andes Mountains
Atlantic Ocean
Caspian Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Correct answer: Valdai Hills
Q12.
Which country in Africa does not have a river flowing through it?
Egypt
Ethiopia
Correct answer: Libya
Rwanda
Uganda

13 Questions

Q1.
What erosion process is similar to sandpapering?
Correct answer: abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the riverbed and the banks)
attrition (rocks collide and break up)
hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks down the riverbed and banks)
solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)
Q2.
What erosion process is similar to crashing?
abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the riverbed and the banks)
Correct answer: attrition (rocks collide and break up)
hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks down the riverbed and banks)
solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)
Q3.
What erosion process is similar to chemical action?
abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the riverbed and the banks)
attrition (rocks collide and break up)
hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks down the riverbed and banks)
Correct answer: solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)
Q4.
What erosion process can be thought of as 'water power'?
abrasion (rocks wear away each other and the riverbed and the banks)
attrition (rocks collide and break up)
Correct answer: hydraulic action (the force of the water breaks down the riverbed and banks)
solution (acids in the water dissolve the rock)
Q5.
Which transportation process is similar to riding a hoverboard?
saltation (pebbles bounce along the river bed)
solution (the smallest sediment is dissolved into the water)
Correct answer: suspension (small sediment is carried along in the flow of the river)
traction (large rocks are rolled along the river bed)
Q6.
Which transportation process is similar to jumping beans?
Correct answer: saltation (pebbles bounce along the river bed)
solution (the smallest sediment is dissolved into the water)
suspension (small sediment is carried along in the flow of the river)
traction (large rocks are rolled along the river bed)
Q7.
Which transportation process is similar to invisible material?
saltation (pebbles bounce along the river bed)
Correct answer: solution (the smallest sediment is dissolved into the water)
suspension (small sediment is carried along in the flow of the river)
traction (large rocks are rolled along the river bed)
Q8.
Which transportation process is similar to tractor wheels rolling along?
saltation (pebbles bounce along the river bed)
solution (the smallest sediment is dissolved into the water)
suspension (small sediment is carried along in the flow of the river)
Correct answer: traction (large rocks are rolled along the river bed)
Q9.
What word will complete this sentence? When a river is travelling fast it has ______ energy.
less
Correct answer: more
Q10.
What word will complete this sentence? When a river has more energy, it can do ______ erosion.
less
Correct answer: more
Q11.
Deposition means...
carry
Correct answer: drop off
Q12.
Erosion happens on the...
inside of a river bend where the river moves more slowly
Correct answer: outside of a river bend where the river moves the fastest
Q13.
Deposition happens on the...
Correct answer: inside of a river bend where the river moves more slowly
outside of a river bend where the river moves the fastest