TOPIC 22 Rivers and drainage basins 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl4SldJ76JE

PART 1 WATER CYCLE

ACTIVITY 1
Read the main text on page 78 and answer the questions. What do following words mean:

Precipitation

Discharge 

What are the 6 different things that happen to water that precipitates?
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ACTIVITY 2  River terminolog

Read Source B  and do TASK 1 b and c.

ACTIVITY 3 The water cycle

Study source B and do TAKS 2 a. 
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKInYFOrtmc

ACTIVITY 4 Copy this diagram in your notebook, name the 5 stages of water cycle and explain them
in your own words.



NASA Earth’s Water Cycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDkph9yQBs
 

 PART 2 DRAINAGE BASIN

ACTIVITY 5 Read the main text on page 79. What do the following words mean:


Drainage basin

Watershed

ACTIVITY 6 Study source B again that shows a drainage basin.

Watch the video and write down the de nitions of the words below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYk2Yg8LhwE

Source

Tributary

Con uence

Mouth

Watershed

Drainage basin

Upper course

Middle course

Lower course

And to remember more easily, listen to this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEi8CoPVgc

ACTIVITY 7 Draw a drainage basin with all its elements and annotate the drawing.
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