Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search.

Key Terms for Rivers

Use these Key Terms to help you with your GCSE revision.

AB
The area containing all the streams and watercourses of one river.Basin
Where material is put down.Deposition.
The wearing away and removal of material.Erosion.
Where trees and plants take water out of the soil and pass it into the air, combined with the effects of evaportation from leaves and the ground itself.Evapotranspiration.
Area flooded when a river bursts its banks.Flood Plain
Bends in a River Channel.Meanders.
Water moving on the surface towards a river.Overland Flow.
When the ground is so full of water it cannot take in any more.Saturation.
A line along the top of a range of hills which mark out the boundary of one basin, separating if from the next basin.Watershed.


Science, ELA Teacher
Morning Star School
Jacksonville, FL

This activity was created by a Quia Web subscriber.
Learn more about Quia
Create your own activities