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Year 10 Rivers- Processes and Landforms

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Year 10

Rivers- Processes and Landforms

CLOSED SYSTEM

OPEN SYSTEM

Patterns of drainage basin

Hydrograph- response of a drainage

basin to a period of rainfall.

River Processes

Erosion

Transportation

Bradshaw’s Model about characteristics of a river

Landforms in different courses of the

river

Landforms- Upper course

V-shaped Valleys and interlocking spurs

Waterfalls

Rapids

Pot Holes

Middle course- Meanders

Flood plain and levees

Lower Course- Ox-bow lake

Braided channels

Types of Delta

Case study

Opportunities offered by river

Associated Hazards

Management

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river-discharge

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age_Basin_System.jpg

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%20Profile.bmp

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