Transportation

• What is transportation?

  When materials are moved from one to another e.g. sand/mud/stones
• What is the material carried by a river called?

  Load
• What is suspended load?

  Material carried in water
• What is bed load?

  Material transported along the bed
• What are the four transportation processes?

  traction, saltation, suspension, solution
• What is traction?

  Large boulders and rocks are rolled along the river bed during transportation
• What is saltation?

  Small pebbles and stones are bounced along the river during transportation
• What is suspension?

  Fine, light materials is carried along by the river in transportation
• What controls the transportation of land?

  Size of material

  Velocity of river

  River discharge
• What is solution in transportation?


  Minerals are dissolved in the water = a chemical change
• Which colour label is saltation?


  Yellow

  
• What does the yellow label represent?

  Saltation

  
• What does the red label show?

  Solution

  
• Which colour label shows solution?

  Red

  
• What colour label shows traction? 


  Blue

  
• What does the blue label show?

  Traction

  
• What does the green label show?

  Suspension

  
• Which colour label shows suspension? 


  Green