Unit 2: Water on the land (rivers)

1. Water Cycle

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• Your book

• A template

• A stick of glue

• Scissors

• Pencil crayons- blue and brown

• A pen

Cut out the template.

Make sure you cut up the vertical line.

Using a brown crayon, shade around the circumference of the circle.

Using a blue crayon, shade the left triangle, draw some blue lines running

from the top of the triangle and branching out towards the edge of the

circle.

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.

Tributary a small river or stream that joins a larger river.

Channel this is where the river flows.

Drainage Basin this is the area of land drained by a river and its

tributaries.

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You will now need a pen. Number the following features on your template.

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Glue the remaining blank triangle.

Stick the glued triangle under the shaded triangle, so it fits neatly.

Open your book to a double page. Glue the triangle and the bottom sides of the diagram. Stick this firmly across the cease of the book. The tip of the

triangle should correspond to the cease.

It should look like this!

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.

Tributary a small river or stream that joins a larger river.

Channel this is where the river flows.

Drainage Basin this is the area of land drained by a river and its

tributaries.

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Give your diagram the title ‘River Basin’. Provide a date.

Write neatly the numbers and corresponding definitions into

your book.

Close your book!

Open your book!

If Finished …

• Write a journey of a water droplet!• Imagine you can take the journey of a

lifetime in either the drainage basin OR in the water cycle