What are the key features of a Drainage Basin?Year 10 River Pressures and Processes

Edexcel B Geography

What are the key features of a Drainage Basin?

Learning Objectives:• To know and understand the key terminology

for drainage basin morphology;• To be resilient and reflective in your learning.

Source: the start of a river. Usually high up in the hills the origin of which is normally a stream

Tributary: a small stream / channel that flows off the main river.

River Mouth: The end of the river where the river meets the sea. Sometimes this can result in a delta.

Confluence: the point at which a river and a tributary meet.

Watershed: An area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.

The Long Profile

The Long Profile from source to mouth

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESqArkXp9Q&feature=related

Consolidation Activity

• Write a paragraph explaining what happens to water as it travels from river source to river mouth. What happens to the shape and speed of the river during this journey.