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Edexcel GCSE geography Rivers ExamQuestion & Answers 2025
Drainage basin - Correct Answers ✅Area of land drained by a river.
Watershed - Correct Answers ✅Boundary of a drainage basin, usually
high land such as hills or ridges.
Source - Correct Answers ✅Starting point of a river.
Mouth - Correct Answers ✅Where the river meets the sea.
Upper Course - Correct Answers ✅Area of a river near its' source,
often in upland areas and when discharge is smaller.
Middle Course - Correct Answers ✅Area further downstream, typified
by wider valley floors and less steep slopes. River begins to meander.
Lower Course - Correct Answers ✅Area nearer the mouth, typified by
very wide flat floodplains, meanders and oxbow lakes.
Contour Lines - Correct Answers ✅Lines on maps which show the
height of land.
Erosion - Correct Answers ✅Wearing away of the land
, Edexcel GCSE geography Rivers Exam
Question & Answers 2025
Hydraulic action - Correct Answers ✅The sheer power of the water
forcing into cracks, compressing air and breaking the rocks apart.
Abrasion - Correct Answers ✅The effect of rocks being flung at the
bed and banks and rubbing the land away.
solution - Correct Answers ✅The dissolving of rocks such as limestone
and chalk.
Attrition - Correct Answers ✅The knocking together of pebbles,
making them gradually smaller and smoother.
Vertical erosion - Correct Answers ✅When rivers erode down into the
land, often in the upper course.
Lateral erosion - Correct Answers ✅When rivers erode from side to
side, often in middle and lower courses.
Soil Creep - Correct Answers ✅Where individual particles of soil move
slowly down a slope.
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