Year 8 Geography Meanders

1. Going
around the
Bend!
Obj: To understand how meanders and ox-
bow lakes are formed.
To create a presentation.

2. Where is this river?
Describe the shape of the
river?
Mention the width.
Why might it be like this?

3. What might
happen here?
What is the land
like around the
river?

6. What has
happened here?

7. What is happening
EROSION
here?
What is
DEPOSITION
happening here?
WHY????

8. Groups
Your group needs to create a diagram to show how a meander and ox-bow
lake is formed. Explain the process using the statement give. Create a
diagram to show how a meander and ox-bow lake is formed. And explain the
process using the statement give. In your diagram you need to clearly label
each arrow.
Isaam Zeeshan Shahara Prableen Jodie Sakura
Harleen Luis Gurkirat Sheretha Nadine Simrandeep
Jay Ikram Fezaan Simran G Akashdeep Jessica
Simran T Amee Nayan Abdi Janki Alina
Dimple Schriece

9. Going around the bend
Your group needs to create a diagram to show how a meander and ox-bow lake is
formed. Explain the process using the statement give. Create a diagram to show how
a meander and ox-bow lake is formed. And explain the process using the statement
give. In your diagram you need to clearly label each arrow.
The water in it becomes
During a flood
stagnant. The lake will the river cuts Sediment is
remain sealed off unless across the deposited
meander, forming along the sides
the river floods onto it one of the new
a new channel
day. channel. The
loop gets
A meander sealed off and
starts as a Over time the outer bank gets worn
the oxbow lake
slight bend. away and the inner one built up. forms.
The bend grows into a meander.
Water flows
fastest on the
Outer bank gets
outer curve of the
eroded while
bends, and slower
material is
deposited at the on the inner curve
inner bank

10. What do I need to do?

15. The River That Meanders
Kenton M. Stewart In pairs read
Oh, the river that meanders has an aimless kind of flow…
through the
in the sense that such a river seems to not know where to go.
poem.
Is it right or left, or left or right? Who cares? And I don’t know.
How is the poet
Yet it’s that lack of clear direction that the river seems to show!
describing the
Oh the river that meanders suggests a valley with low slope, meander?
as it twists and turns and cuts a course that offers little hope
of telling why it went that way… an aquatic king of grope.
For the river, twisty river, looks a bit like some blue rope.
Oh the river that meanders has a kind of strange appeal…
with its artistic looking patterns… but believe me they are real.
Now you may think such rivers with the land have cut a deal,
for they take from one another, but yet they do not steal.
How could we
Oh the river that meanders lets you know where it has been
improve this
with its separated oxbows and its bank-eroding spin.
poem?
Yet that slowly moving river hardly ever makes a din,
and the river is a lifeline for feather, fur, and fin.
Oh you river, twisty river, tell me what will be your fate?
Will you twist yourself apart? Have you ever had a spate?
Those sandbanks on your inside bank don’t care if you are late.
So flow and let flow river, your meanders are just great!

16. My Poem
You are to write a poem about a feature
on the river we have studied.
i.e. A waterfall or a meander
include as many key geographical terms