UNIT 5 RIVER PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

1.- RIVER PROCESSES: THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY A RIVER

1.1.- Erosion, transportation and deposition

1.2.- Factors affecting the work carried out by a river

1.3.- Why deposition happens

1.4.- Discharge

2.- THE RIVER CHANNEL

2.1.- The upper course of a river

- Waterfalls and gorges

- Interlocking spurs

2.2.- The middle and lower courses of a river

- Meanders and oxbow lakes

- Flood plains and levees

- Deltas

3.- THE LONG PROFILE OF A RIVER

4.-LIVING IN RIVER FLOOD PLAINSAND DELTAS

4.1.- Flooding

4.2.- Flooding prevention and defences

GLOSSARY:

Pebbles, silt, downstream, attrition, bedload, discharge, cumecs, cross section, gorge,
canyons, eddies, swirl, drill, to undercut, to spur, oxbow, gravel, leves (more glossary
added studying the unit)