Task Create a pop up drainage basin You

Task: Create a pop up drainage basin You will need: ü Your book ü A template ü A stick of glue ü Scissors ü Pencil crayons – blue and brown ü A pen

Cut out the template. Make sure you cut up the vertical line in the middle of the triangle.

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 cut towards the edge of the circle.

Number the following features on your template using a pen. 1 Watershed the area of high land forming the edge of a river basin. 2 Source where a river begins. 3 Mouth where a river meets the sea. 4 Confluence the point at which two rivers meet. 5 Tributary a small river or stream that joins a larger river. 6 Channel this is where the river flows. 7 Drainage Basin this is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.

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

It should look like this!

Give your diagram the title ‘River Basin’. Write neatly the numbers and corresponding definitions into your books. 1 Watershed the area of high land forming the edge of a river basin. 2 Source where a river begins. 3 Challenge: Explain what a drainage basin is. Mouth where a river meets the sea. 4 Confluence the point at which two rivers meet. 5 Tributary a small river or stream that joins a larger river. 6 Channel this is where the river flows. 7 Drainage Basin this is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.

Plenary – Quick quiz! 1. What is the start of the river called? 2. What is the term for where the river meets the sea? 3. What is the land drained by river called? 4. What is the term for when two streams meet? 5. What is the term for water travelling through soil? 6. What is the term for water traveling over the land? 7. What is the term for water lost from the leaves of tress? 8. What is the term for water travelling through rocks? 9. What is the term for water being changed from a liquid to a gas? 10. What is the term for rainfall being caught by the leaves of trees?