TTO mavohavo - Chapter 3 Floods

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Chapter 3: River Flooding

Content of this chapter:

• The water cycle. 3.1
• The causes of flooding and how people respond to the     problem. 3.3
• The effects of flooding (UK and Bangladesh). 3.4, 3.6
• How the risk of flooding can be reduced. 3.8
• Topography, rivers, page 45

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water transfer

water storage

Water cycle

1) Copy the water cycle drawing to your notebook. 

2) Add the correct words.

3) Add text to explain.

4) Take a picture and hand it in in 

Teams.

5) This is also activity 1 on page 43.

Today

- Did you hand in the homework?! (The water cycle)

- Read pages 40, 41, 42 and 43.

- Look for difficult words and find the translation in

an En-En dictionary. Write them in your notebook.

- Answer activity 2 on page 43.

 

Difficult words

nuisance

transfers/transferred

condensation

reduced 

vapour

whilst

flooding

individuals

transpiration

affected

increase

diagram

shown

causes

liquid

sleet

tributaries

river basin

watershed

Murray Darling

Activities page 45

1 Fit the names of the rivers into the crossword 'D'.

          

The Amazon, Colorado, Danube, Ganges, Murray-Darling,                Mississippi, Nile, Rhine, St Lawrence, Volga, Yangtze,                          Zambezi, Zaire (Congo)

          

Activities page 45

1 fit the names of the rivers into the crossword D.

2 Sort the rivers into five groups:

Activities page 45

1 fit the names of the rivers into the crossword D.

2 Sort the rivers into five groups:

3 UK: Severn, Thames, Trent, name one city on each of these rivers.

Activities page 45

1 fit the names of the rivers into the crossword D.

2 Sort the rivers into five groups:

3 UK: Severn, Thames, Trent, name one city on each of these rivers.

4 extra: match the 13 rivers from activity 2 with a country through which they flow. Choose one important country.

3.3 What causes a river to flood?

What causes a
river to flood?

What causes a river to flood?

If water is unable to soak into the ground.

- rock and soil type

- very wet soil

- very dry soil

- steep slopes

- cutting down trees / deforestation

- building more towns and cities / urbanisation

What causes a river to flood?

If water is unable to soak into the ground.

- rock and soil type

- very wet soil

- very dry soil                                                               natural

- steep slopes

- cutting down trees / deforestation

- bulding more towns and cities

What causes a river to flood?

If water is unable to soak into the ground.

- rock and soil type

- very wet soil

- very dry soil                                                               natural

- steep slopes

- cutting down trees / deforestation

- bulding more towns and cities                         human

Entry ticket

What are the three main processes in the watercycle? Put them in the correct order!

Give your answer in a chat to me personally.

How can the risk of flooding be reduced? Name two options.

UK

High developed

Heavy rain - flash floods

Bangladesh

Low developed

Monsoon

More people - buildings

Deforestation

At the mouth of two long rivers

Low country

Activities

- page 49, 1 

- page 53, 1

Activities

- page 49, 1 

- page 53, 1             Newspaper

Activities

- page 49, 1 

- page 53, 1             Newspaper article

- page 49, 2

- page 53, 2            causes of flooding