Class: IX Subject : (0460) Part Theme

A 2
Topic Rivers – from source to mouth Task : Week :3,4

This sheet supports Topic 13 and is linked to Task 1 on page 70 of the textbook. NOTE :
Use the microsoft word to attempt
Water stores and flows your task
The area of land from which a river collects its water is known as a drainage basin or
catchment area. Water can exist in three states in the water cycle – gas, liquid and solid.
Wherever the water is, it is either being stored or being transferred by a flow.
  Task
1 Study the diagram. Add the following
Drainage basin input labels in the correct boxes on the diagram:
(precipitation) • Surface store
Condensation • Groundwater store
• Soil water store
Evapotranspiration • Interception by vegetation
• Channel store in stream or river
2 Find out and write down the meaning of
the following terms:
A
Infiltration
Percolation
Overland flow
B Throughflow
Groundwater flow
Overland flow Condensation
Infiltration (run-off )
Evapotranspiration
3 What do you understand by the terms
D input and output? Give an example of
Throughflow
C each from the diagram.
4 Suggest two places on the diagram where:
• water is stored
Deep percolation
Groundwater flow • water flows or is transferred
• water changes its state from liquid to
gas.
Drainage basin output Water stores 5 Suggest how the systems diagram might
E (river discharge) change if applied to an urban area. Explain
Water flows
and transfers why.

Cambridge IGCSE Geography     Part A Theme 2 The Natural Environment By Masroor Latif Abbasi