FLUVIAL LANFORMS

LANDFORMS FORMED BY EROSION, TRANSPORTATION AND DEPOSITION BY RIVER

ACTION.
 ECONOMIC
ACTIVITY You will be successful when
Candidates should be able
to demonstrate knowledge
and understanding of
processes contributing to the
Learners will be able development of physical
to explain the environments.
formation of delta and A
understand its types
Why is this important?
What’s next?
Demonstrate an
understanding that rivers
Learners will be present hazards and
able to describe offer opportunities for
the depositional B
people
landforms.
How can I challenge
Learners will be myself today?
able to explain the Students can interpret
formation of atlas maps by describing
erosional river C the distribution of the
landforms different farming types
shown
 Starter!

Write it down!
Can you name the three stages of river?

Starter
 Erosional landforms
Rapids

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms

 POTHOLES

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms
WATERFALLS

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms
LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of erosional river landforms
AFL
AFL
 Meanders

LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.

As the water flows through a meander the following things occur:

– Most water is directed towards the outside of a bend

– This means it flows faster around the outside bend

– It therefore has more energy and erodes the outside bend

– This means it is deeper and has steeper banks called a river cliff

– As most of the water is directed to the outside bend, the inside bend has less

water

– Less water means that it is shallower and slower and therefore has less energy

– It therefore deposits (drops) material on the inside bend

– This builds up to form a slip off slope

LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.
 Ox Bow Lakes

LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.

LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.
LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.
 Key Words
Sort the statements into the correct order
River
•The river is eroding laterally (from side to side). Erosion
•The river erodes the outside bank and deposits on the Deposition
inside bank so the river shape changes. River banks
Sediment
•The river is meandering across the valley. Oxbow lake
•New deposition seals off the old meander and the
cut-off section becomes an ox-bow lake.
•Often during a flood the river will cut through the
neck.
•The river continues down its new course and the
meander is abandoned.
•This erosion narrows the neck of the meander.
Extension Activity:
 Key Words
Sort the statements into the correct order
River
•The river is meandering across the valley.
Erosion
•The river is eroding laterally (from side to side). Deposition
River banks
•The river erodes the outside bank and deposits on the Sediment
inside bank so the river shape changes. Oxbow lake

•This erosion narrows the neck of the meander.

•Often during a flood the river will cut through the neck.

•The river continues down its new course and the

meander is abandoned.

•New deposition seals off the old meander and the

cut-off section becomes an ox-bow lake.
Extension Activity:
Levee Floodplain

LO 1:Learners will be able to describe the depositional landforms.

•Floodplains and levees are formed in the middle and lower course of a river

•Floodplains and leveés are formed by deposition in times of river flood.

•The river’s load is composed of different sized particles.

•When a river floods it deposits the heaviest of these particles first. The larger particles, often pebble-

sized, form the leveés.

•Levees are raised banks right next to the river banks.

•As the water continues to flood futher away from the river banks, the sands are deposited next, then

the silts and finally the lightest clays.

•This build up of sand, silt and clays leads to the formation of a flat piece of land (floodplain) either side

of the river- just after the levees.

•Every time the river floods deposition builds up the floodplain.

 Suggest how the course of the river
shown in the given figure may
change in the future as a result of
natural processes.

Critical Thinking?
 Deltas

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of delta and understand its types.
 •Deltas are formed at the end of a river, where the river meets the sea at its
mouth.
•As large rivers approach the sea they have the energy to carry large amounts of
fine material in suspension.
•When they reach the sea this slows their velocity and they lose their energy.
•The fine material is then deposited into the mouth of the river and can block the
channel.
•The river has to divide into a series of smaller channels called distributaries tin
order to each the sea.
•Over time, the deposited material (sand and silt) builds upwards and can break
through the river surface to form a delta.
•Deltas will only form where large amounts of material are carried or the sea is
calm.

LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of delta and understand its types.
LO 1:Learners will be able to explain the formation of delta and understand its types.
Challenge/ Stretch yourself

Describe the characteristics of the Pearl River

delta shown in the given figure.

How can I challenge myself today?

 LESSON RE-CAP - PLENARY
C Question 2 B
Question 1 MOST
ALL Differentiate between levees
What is a meander and floodplains.
What is delta

Question 3 A*
SOME A
Describe the formation of
waterfall. Challenge yourself
Explain the formation of FEW
oxbow lake. How do deltas are formed?