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    Rivers provide many benefits such as habitats for wildlife, freshwater resources, and sites for recreation and tourism. A river begins as water collects from precipitation at the source, often located in mountains, and flows downstream as it is joined by tributaries. Eventually the river empties into a larger body of water at its mouth where sediments are deposited. The water cycle describes how water evaporates from surfaces, condenses into clouds, precipitates as rain or snow, and either soaks into the ground or runs across the surface as it makes its way into rivers and back to bodies of water. Hydrologists study this process and river drainage basins to understand river flooding and drought.

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    Rivers provide many benefits such as habitats for wildlife, freshwater resources, and sites for recreation and tourism. A river begins as water collects from precipitation at the source, often located in mountains, and flows downstream as it is joined by tributaries. Eventually the river empties into a larger body of water at its mouth where sediments are deposited. The water cycle describes how water evaporates from surfaces, condenses into clouds, precipitates as rain or snow, and either soaks into the ground or runs across the surface as it makes its way into rivers and back to bodies of water. Hydrologists study this process and river drainage basins to understand river flooding and drought.

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    Rivers provide many benefits such as habitats for wildlife, freshwater resources, and sites for recreation and tourism. A river begins as water collects from precipitation at the source, often located in mountains, and flows downstream as it is joined by tributaries. Eventually the river empties into a larger body of water at its mouth where sediments are deposited. The water cycle describes how water evaporates from surfaces, condenses into clouds, precipitates as rain or snow, and either soaks into the ground or runs across the surface as it makes its way into rivers and back to bodies of water. Hydrologists study this process and river drainage basins to understand river flooding and drought.

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    Rivers provide many benefits such as habitats for wildlife, freshwater resources, and sites for recreation and tourism. A river begins as water collects from precipitation at the source, often located in mountains, and flows downstream as it is joined by tributaries. Eventually the river empties into a larger body of water at its mouth where sediments are deposited. The water cycle describes how water evaporates from surfaces, condenses into clouds, precipitates as rain or snow, and either soaks into the ground or runs across the surface as it makes its way into rivers and back to bodies of water. Hydrologists study this process and river drainage basins to understand river flooding and drought.

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    Geography

    6.1 and 2
    Rivers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
    =7kgQNRQjIUU
    Why important?

    • habitats for wildlife


    • freshwater for settlements, agriculture, and other industries
    • resources for leisure and tourism
    • navigation for exploration, trade and commerce
    • a means to transport nutrients and sediment
    • changing levels of energy that shape the landscape
    • energy for hydro-electric power
    River source
    • A starting point of a river called a 'source',
    most are on mountains because that is where
    rain often falls.
    • Water collects and starts to flow down as a
    stream.
    • Several of these small streams join together
    to form a river.
    River mouth

    • A river mouth is where a river


    flows into a larger body of
    water
    • That can be another river, a
    lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a
    sea, or an ocean.
    • Sediments are often
    deposited
    How does water flow into river?
    Water Cycle
    The Water Cycle is the journey water
    takes between hydrophore, atmosphere
    and lithosphere.
    • Evaporation: when the sun heats
    water it changes into water vapor and
    rises into the air
    • Condensation: as air rises it cools and
    the water vapour forms clouds
    • Precipitation: water droplets form
    and fall to the ground as rain, hail or
    snow.
    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/
    learn-about/weather/how-weather-
    works/water-cycle
    What happens when water
    reaches the ground?
    • Do you have any plants?
    • Be intercepted by plants
    • Be stored on the surface in a puddle
    • Soak in infiltrating into the soil
    • Run down a slope
    • Evaporate immediately
    Water cycle diagram in detail

    • Infiltration: the downward


    movement of water through the land
    surface.

    • Transpiration: the process by which


    moisture is carried through plants from
    roots to small pores on the underside
    of leaves, where it changes to vapor
    and is released to the atmosphere

    Surface runoff: precipitation runoff


    over the landscape. Impervious areas
    cause excessive runoff.

    Watershed : There is a divide between


    one drainage basin and another
    • Percolation: the
    movement of water through
    the soil itself.
    • Throughflow: movement
    of water through the lower
    soil towards rivers
    • Groundwater: water
    returns to earth as
    precipitation
    River basin
    • A drainage basin is the area of land around the
    river that is drained by the river and its
    tributaries
    • Watershed - the area of high land forming the edge
    of a river basin.
    • Source - where a river begins.
    • Mouth - where a river meets the sea.
    • Confluence - the point at which two rivers meet.
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GOJ3S5jKSI
    Hydrologists

    • They study how water flows


    across the land. They
    research and measure
    grandwater, and the drainage
    basin process. It is important
    that hydrologists study these
    process to better understand
    river floods and droughts.
    Do most the rain
    reaches the ground?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQ0Ypp3r_8
    Activity

    Add: key terms such as


    Draw a copy of the water
    precipitation, evaporation,
    cycle system
    infiltration and river

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