Erosion, transport and deposition
Rivers and waves are constantly picking up, carrying and dropping material. Landforms are just that process, frozen at a moment.
Part of your national curriculum
- Human and physical geography: Understand how geographical processes interact to create distinctive human and physical landscapes that change over time
Lesson overview
What you'll learn in this lesson
Explain erosion, transport and deposition
Key learning points
- • How water erodes
- • Deposition
This lesson at a glance
- 25 minutes
- 12 parts to scroll through
- 3 quick checks
- Marked quiz at the end
- Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses
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Visual introductionPicture this
Erosion, transport and deposition
Rivers and waves are constantly picking up, carrying and dropping material. Landforms are just that process, frozen at a moment.
In a nutshell
Explain erosion, transport and deposition
Explore the idea
Part 2 of 12
Learn
How water erodes
Hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition and solution wear away rock. Faster, deeper flow carries more and larger material.
Explore the idea
Part 3 of 12
Learn
Deposition
When energy drops — at a bend's inside, a river mouth or a sheltered bay — the heaviest load is dropped first.
Reset break
Part 4 of 12
Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Quick check
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Quick check
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Quick check
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Reset break
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Pause
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Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.
Challenge round
Part 9 of 12
Game · Sort it
Which of these are true?
Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.
True
Not true
Challenge round
Part 10 of 12
Game · Recall cards
Abrasion is…
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Mastery quiz
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Marked quiz
End of lesson quiz: Erosion, transport and deposition
4 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.
1. Abrasion is…
2. Deposition happens when…
3. Attrition affects…
4. Managed retreat is…
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Understand how geographical processes interact to create distinctive human and physical landscapes that change over time