1. Year 7 Revision
May 2015

2. MAPSKILLS
Flash - drag and drop exercise

3. 2.8 Ordnance Survey maps
Oxford University Press; map reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown Copyright

5. MAKING CONNECTIONS

6. With their capital cities
28 Members of the EU
With their capital cities

7. What is the EU?
This is the EU flag

8. ..What is the European Union?
1. The European Union is a group of countries whose governments work together.
2. It's a bit like a club. To join you have to agree to follow the rules and in return you get certain benefits.
3. Each country has to pay money to be a member. They mostly do this through taxes.
4. Countries join because they think that they will benefit from the changes the EU makes.
Also
5. The EU uses the money to change the way people live and do business in Europe.

9. RIVERS AND FLOODS

10. Tributary
(a river which joins a larger river)
Catchment
(the area from which water drains into a particular drainage basin)
Watershed
(the boundary dividing one drainage basin from another)
Confluence
(the point at which two rivers join)

11. What is a flood? Meander cross section
A flood happens when a river overflows its banks
However, a flood becomes a problem when the water threatens property and/or life.
bankfull
discharge
Meander cross section

12. Why do rivers flood?
Physical Factors
Human Factors
Clay soil

13. Widen and deepen channel
Flood relief channels
(these increase the capacity of the river by creating more channels)
Widen and deepen channel
(to increase the capacity of the river)
Flood warning systems
‘Solutions’ to flooding
Floodplain Zoning
Plant trees
(increase evapotranspiration - this reduces the amount of water that reaches the river)
Concrete beds and banks
(increase the velocity of the river)
Dams
(these control the flow of the water in the upper course and thus reduce flooding. e.g. Donzere on the Rhone)
reduces the likelihood of future flooding
reduces the impact of future floods

14. Manchester Birmingham Cardiff London Edinburgh Ben Nevis Glasgow
Belfast
Slieve Donard
Scafell Pike
Snowdon
Manchester
Birmingham
Cardiff
London