Lesson Y7-U03-L04
Erosion, Transport and Deposition Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 3
20 questions
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Lesson Y7-U03-L04, Erosion, Transport and Deposition: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 3: Year 7: Rivers and the Water Cycle, written with Revision Ninja.
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The 20 questions
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What geographical term describes a river wearing away its own banks and bed?
- Erosion
- Transportation
- Deposition
- Precipitation
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What term is used when a river drops the sediment it is carrying?
- Abrasion
- Deposition
- Attrition
- Solution
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What name is given to all the rocks, stones and mud carried by a river?
- Source
- Tributary
- Load
- Estuary
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Which erosion process involves stones scraping against the riverbed like sandpaper?
- Attrition
- Traction
- Saltation
- Abrasion
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Which erosion process causes river stones to knock together and become rounder?
- Solution
- Abrasion
- Suspension
- Attrition
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Which erosion process dissolves soluble rocks like chalk and limestone?
- Solution
- Saltation
- Traction
- Attrition
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Which transport process involves large boulders rolling along the riverbed?
- Traction
- Saltation
- Suspension
- Solution
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Which transport process carries fine mud particles floating within the water?
- Abrasion
- Suspension
- Saltation
- Traction
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Which transport process describes small pebbles bouncing along the riverbed?
- Attrition
- Saltation
- Solution
- Traction
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Sand and grit scraping along a riverbed smoothing the channel is an example of what?
- Solution
- Abrasion
- Saltation
- Deposition
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Which river erosion process involves the force of water breaking rock?
- Abrasion
- Attrition
- Hydraulic action
- Solution
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Which river erosion process involves acidic water dissolving rock?
- Solution
- Hydraulic action
- Attrition
- Abrasion
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Which river process makes pebbles smaller and rounder downstream?
- Abrasion
- Hydraulic action
- Deposition
- Attrition
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Which river transport process carries dissolved minerals invisibly?
- Solution
- Traction
- Suspension
- Saltation
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What happens when a river slows down and loses energy?
- Erosion
- Attrition
- Deposition
- Abrasion
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Which size of material does a river drop first when it slows down?
- Lightest material
- Dissolved load
- Heaviest material
- Suspended silt
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In which part of a river's course does the most erosion happen?
- Lower course
- Middle course
- Estuary
- Upper course
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In which part of a river's course does the most deposition happen?
- Upper course
- V-shaped valley
- Source area
- Lower course
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Which type of river has the highest energy to erode its bed?
- Gentle river
- Flat river
- Slow river
- Fast river
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Why might a river erode in one place and deposit in another?
- Bedrock is uniform
- Discharge is constant
- Water is salty
- Speed varies
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