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The drainage basin: how does water reach a river?

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  • 12 questions
  • 35 marks
  • about 35 minutes
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Question types: multiple choice, short answer, true or false, label the diagram, matching.

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Which word names the boundary line that separates one drainage basin from the next?

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Find out how rain travels across and through the land to reach a river. You will label a drainage basin, follow rain over different surfaces and explain why some places send water to the river faster than others.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — The drainage basin
  5. Teach — What happens to rain on a hillside
  6. Teach — Where the rain goes
  7. I Do
  8. Hinge Check
  9. We Do
  10. Task — Label the River Eden basin
  11. Task — Why does rain reach the river faster in some drainage basins?
  12. Self-Check
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