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  Achieve! Geography - Rivers: from Source to Sea
  Achieve! Geography - Rivers: from Source to Sea
Achieve! Geography - Rivers: from Source to Sea
 
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Achieve! Geography - Rivers: from Source to Sea provides a range of tasks that explore concepts to do with the key parts of river systems, their contribution to environments and how humans and rivers interact.

Chapters and topics in this book:

Water and the water cycle
 -
Water in the environment
 - Where is water stored?
 - The water cycle
 - Water cycle keywords
 - Explaining the cycle

The course of the river
 - The river in the mountains
 - The river on the plain
 - The river meets the sea
 - River fact file
 - River tale
 
River erosion
 -
River erosion
 - True or false
 - What is weathering?
 - Erosion and weathering

River transportation
 - River transportation
 - Cause and effect
 - What could happen?
 - What did happen?


River deposition
 - Meandering rivers
 - What is missing?
 - Billabongs
 - A billabong: how could one form?
 - River map

 
River landscapes
 - River valley
 - Drainage basins
 - How does a waterfall form?
 - The changing valley
 - Great rivers

Flooding
 - Overflowing rivers
 - What is happening?
 - Flood report
 - Bangladesh
 - Disasters and benefits

Floods: causes and control
 - Rivers and their flooplains
 - Case study: the Pioneer River, Mackay, Queensland
 - Why did the Pioneer River flood?
 - Soft and hard flood defences
 - Key points

River Pollution
 - Dirty waters
 - Water quality
 - Case study: the Yarra River
 - The Yarra River: Looking more closely
 - River pollution summary

Conservation and renewal
 - Restoring a river
 - The Los Angeles River
 - River File

Assessment Sheet.


 
While very suitable for the regular classroom, each of the Achieve! series of Geography titles have been written at a literacy level that makes the pages appropriate for secondary students who, because of poor literacy skills, struggle to comprehend regular classroom materials.

Each title in this series comes with a CD that contains all the pages that are featured in the book, as well as a file of illustrations that can be used for other work sheets. These files can be easily edited to suit the needs of students and the curriculum requirements of your state.

There are 4 titles in the Achieve! Geography series:

 - Physical Processes
 - Sustainable Development
 - Rivers: from Source to Sea
 - 
Global Issues

Other Achieve! series available:
 - Achieve! Science
 -
Achieve! English
 - Achieve! Design and Materials Technology

Related books ...
Achieve! Geography - Physical Processes Achieve! Geography - Sustainable Development Achieve! Geography - Global Issues
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