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Topic: The hydrological cycle is a system. / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, pages 221 to 225
Glossary:
Hydrological cycle -
Evapotranspiration -
Groundwater flow -
Condensation -
Precipitation -
Transpiration -
Infiltration -
Percolation -
Evaporation -
Surface runoff –
Soil moisture budgets -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Block Diagram of a drainage basin
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Topic: The water balance and soil moisture budgets. / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, pages 226 to 228
“Geography in Focus” Cook et al, page380
Glossary:
Water Balance -
Streamflow -
Soil moisture budget -
Storage –
Transfers –
Discharge -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
A water balance graph.
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Topic: The causes of precipitation. / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, 200 to 201.
“Geography: an integrated approach” David Waugh, pages 219 to 220.
Glossary:
Convection -
Thermals -
Dry Adiabatic Lapse rate –
Latent heat –
Saturated Adiabatic Lapse rate –
Cyclonic rainfall –
Orographic rainfall –
Air mass –
Rainshadow –
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Cyclonic rainfall
Orographic rainfall
Convectional rainfall
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Topic: River hydrographs / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, pages 229 to 230
Glossary:
Discharge –
Base flow –
Hydrograph –
River regime -
Bankfull discharge -
Rising limb -
Falling limb –
Antecedent flow rate –
Lag time -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
A hydrograph.
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Topic: River regimes –York / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, page 233
“Geography in Focus” Cook et al, pages 391 and 395/6
Glossary:
River regime –
Impermeable rock –
Gradient –
Low pressure system –
Infiltration capacity -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
River Ouse drainage basin
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Topic: Influences on drainage basins – the river Ouse / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: Geofile 366
Glossary:
Physical factors –
Human factors –
Tributaries –
Confluences –
Long profile –
Relief –
Geology –
Geomorphology –
Permeable rocks –
Interception –
Afforestation -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Geological map of OuseBasin.
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Topic: River regimes / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, pages 234 to 235
“Geography: an integrated approach” David Waugh, page 64.
Glossary:
Water abstraction -
Precipitation -
Temperature -
River Regime –
Environment Agency -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
River regime graphs.
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Topic: Downstream changes in river characteristics / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Geography: an integrated approach” David Waugh, pages 68 to 71.
Glossary:
Laminar Flow -
Turbulent flow –
Load –
Channel shape –
Hydraulic Radius –
Wetted Perimeter –
Manning’s Roughness coefficient -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Figure 3.20.
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Topic: Erosion, Transportation, Deposition and the Hjulström graph / Unit: Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Geography: an integrated approach” David Waugh, pages 71 to 74
Glossary:
Transportation –
Saltation –
Traction –
Suspension –
Solution -
Competence –
Capacity –
Erosion -
Corrasion (abrasion) –
Attrition -
Hydraulic action –
Corrosion –
Deposition -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Hjulstrom graph.
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Topic: River erosion and deposition landforms / Unit: Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: “Essential AS Geography” Ross, Morgan and Heelas, pages 245 to251
Glossary:
Potholes –
Waterfall –
Gorge –
Rapids –
Weathering –
Mass movement –
Meander –
Point bar –
Thalweg –
Hydrosere –
Braided channel –
Levées –
Alluvium –
River Terrace –
Delta –
Distributaries –
Arcuate –
Flocculation -
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Topic: Managing the Flood Hazard / Unit:Unit 1 - Physical Environments
Reading: Geofile 268
Glossary:
Flood –
Channelisation –
Coastal embankments –
Cropping practices –
Forecasting –
Cyclonic floods -
Notes
Key learning points: / Diagrams or maps:
Map of Bangladesh.
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