Science Essays

Aim: To investigate changes in bed load and discharge along the course of the river Shimna. I expect that as you move from the source to the mouth the discharge of the river will increase. This is possibly due to tributaries coming together and the river channel becoming wider. Also …

A graded channel is a channel with an idealised smooth concave long profile: a steep youthful source declining into an elongated gentle elderly channel downstream toward its mouth. According to Collard ‘As rivers evolve through time they appear to work towards the achievement of a smooth, concave profile … from …

Now that I have finished carrying out my investigations both on river processes at Dovedale and the tourist pressure which occurs in a honeypot in Castleton, I have now finally reached a conclusion based on my findings of each experiment. I will give an analytical overview of what I have …

The objectives of this laboratory experiment are to analyse the flow of water past a Sluice gate. Flow through a horizontal rectangular channel partially obstructed by a gate has been used to establish a hydraulic jump. Experimental measurements for upstream and downstream depths determining the free surface profile is compared …

Net accumulation and net ablation together make up the glacial budget. Net accumulation occurs at higher altitudes and therefore lower temperatures, meaning less melting of ice and a larger build up of snow. This area is called the zone of net accumulation. In the winter snow builds up to become …

Section 1 – Applied understanding Why? We are doing this study to test all the text book theories. It brings all the ideas that we read in a book to real life, we can see exactly what happens for ourselves we get the chance to record the results ourselves also …

The purpose of this study is to decide whether the hypothesis ‘water flows faster and is deeper on the outside edge of a meander curve’ is true or not. To do this I have collected a lot of data about the river Wye. I will use this data such as …

Aim In our enquiry we are going to investigate how the Breamish’s Characteristics change from source to mouth. We are going to see which aspects of the river will change. The aspects that we will be measuring are going to be whether or not the velocity, bedload, bedload shape or …

Drainage basins are areas in which water drains from higher land to lower land and eventually meets the sea or a lake. Water that flows on top of land along a certain path is said to be in a channel. The argument in this essay is whether drainage basins and …

The flooding of rivers is a natural and essential part of river basin processes and is only a hazard because they can affect people’s lives. Flooding occur when a large volume of water enters a river system quickly and cannot be contained within the river channel. By analysing a river …