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Cambridge AS & A Level Geography

1.2River channel processes and landforms

River channel processes and landforms in Cambridge AS & A Level Geography: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives

What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.

  1. 1.2.1Explain river erosion, load transport and deposition and the relationship between velocity, discharge and load size.
  2. 1.2.2Describe river flow: velocity and discharge, laminar, turbulent and helicoidal flow, and the thalweg.
  3. 1.2.3Explain the formation of meanders, riffles and pools, waterfalls, gorges, bluffs, floodplains and levees.

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River channel processes and landforms: sample question

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Which river erosion process is the grinding of the bed and banks by the sediment the river carries?

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