Year 7 Water Worksheets

1. Activity sheet The main causes of flooding
We can split the six main causes of flooding into three categories:
1 Climatic – weather-related causes
2 Human – the causes that people create
3 Physical – caused by features of the land
Add the following main causes of flooding to the correct part of the Venn diagram.
Two have been done for you.
Heavy rainfall Rapid snow-melt Dam failure Saturated ground
Deforestation Urbanization
HINT: Remember to think which causes fit into more than one category and put them
into an overlapping part of the diagram.
Climatic Human
Saturated
Deforestation
ground
Physical
geography@work Why are some countries dry whilst others flood?