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Quizzes //
River management
Try this 10-question GCSE quiz to see how much you know about river management and features put in place to help manage the risk of floods.
If you haven't already done them, work through the ‘River landforms’ and ‘River management’ units, which use the River Severn as a case study, to find out more. Or look at them again to help fill in any gaps in your knowledge about river management!
https://geographyeducationonline.org/gcse/physical-geography/river-management-a-case-study-of-the-river-severn
HIGH SCORES
| Rank | Name | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | POG | 20 |
| 2nd | ELW | 20 |
| 3rd | BEX | 20 |
| 4th | JHL | 20 |
| 5th | aeg | 20 |
| 6th | SPB | 20 |
| 7th | TJS | 20 |
| 8th | EMP | 20 |
| 9th | E.C | 20 |
| 10th | HES | 20 |
QUIZZES // River management
Q1. Which of the following is an example of a hard engineering strategy?
Blocking up field drains
Felling trees across small tributaries
Planting trees
Constructing embankments
Q2. Which of the following is an example of a soft engineering strategy?
Constructing flood walls
Straightening the river channel
Land use zoning
Widening the river channel
Q3. Which of the following hard engineering strategies increases the capacity of a river channel?
Dredging the river channel
Land use zoning
Straightening the river channel
Planting trees
Q4. Which of the following management strategies is the odd one out?
Dredging the river channel
Straightening the river channel
Building flood walls
Planting trees
Q5. What term does the Environment Agency use to describe soft engineering strategies?
Natural Flood Management
Flood preparedness
Abstraction
Over-abstraction
Q6. Which of the following management strategies encourages water to flow more quickly?
Tree planting
Straightening the river channel
Land use zoning
Constructing embankments
Q7. How effective is Natural Flood Management at reducing the risk of flooding?
Not at all
Between 5% and 10%
Between 5% and 25%
Between 25% and 50%
Q8. What is the principle of land use zoning?
All land in a town/city must be protected from flooding
It is impossible to prevent floods, so why bother?
The cheapest methods of flood protection are best
Land that will not be damaged by flood water should be allowed to flood
Q9. Which of the following land uses could be used to safely store flood water according to the principles of land use zoning?
Housing
Shops
Car parks
Schools
Q10. Why is it a good idea to store water in the upper catchment using soft engineering such as planting trees or restoring an artificial river channel to a more natural course?
Because water should be stored and then released slowly to reduce the risk of flooding
Because water should be encouraged to move down the river as quickly as possible
Because it is impossible to prevent flooding, so we may as well make the environment look nicer
Because it’s the cheapest way to reduce the risk of flooding
Finished!
You scored this time. The more correct answers you give, and the fewer incorrect answers you guess, the better your score.
