CE/KS3 Geography: Rivers, Erosion & Flooding

Common Entrance / KS3 Geography – Rivers, Erosion & Flooding

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Whether your child is studying geography at school, as part of a home education programme or just for personal interest, understand the impact of rivers and flooding is essential for everyone. This is a key topic in the geography syllabus both at KS3 and for Common Entrance.

If your child looks at their text books with a feeling of dread, if too much text on a page is, quite simply, too much, then our revision guides can help. Broken down into bite sized chunks, this is a great KS3 & Common Entrance revision guide that helps your child with all the key points that they need to know about rivers, processes and flooding. Each section is broken down into clearly laid out and visually interesting way, so that it is easier and more appealing for your child to get to grips with.

Edited by Simon Lewis, Head of Geography at the Independent Schools Examinations Board (ISEB) and endorsed by the ISEB, this colourful, fact filled topic pack makes learning a pleasure and revising quick and effective.

Topics Covered Include:

• Glossary of key terms
• The differences between weathering and erosion
• The Water Cycle
• The three stages of a cross river profile
• Four different types of river erosion
• Four methods of transportation of eroded material
• Features of rivers cause by erosion
• Flood plains and why they are important
• Drainage basins and watersheds
• Physical, climatic and human causes of flooding
• Primary, secondary and economic effects of flooding
• Why flooding affects developing countries more than developed countries
• Flood prevention

Engaging, full-colour illustrations on every page

Text broken down into bite-sized chunks on a lightly shaded background

A simple, easy-to-understand glossary of key terms