1. What are the key features of a Drainage Basin?
Year 10 River Pressures and Processes
Edexcel B Geography

2. What are the key features of a Drainage Basin?
Learning Objectives:
To know and understand the key terminology for drainage basin morphology;
To be resilient and reflective in your learning.

3. Confluence: the point at which a river and a tributary meet.
Source: the start of a river. Usually high up in the hills the origin of which is normally a stream
Watershed: An area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
Tributary: a small stream / channel that flows off the main river.
River Mouth: The end of the river where the river meets the sea. Sometimes this can result in a delta.

4. The Long Profile

5. The Long Profile from source to mouth

6. Consolidation Activity
Write a paragraph explaining what happens to water as it travels from river source to river mouth. What happens to the shape and speed of the river during this journey.