Starter quiz
- Which of these modes of transport would you find on water?
- trains
- Aquabus ✓
- taxis
- planes
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- Which of these is a National Park?
- Cardiff Bay
- River Taff
- Taff Trail
- Brecon Beacons ✓
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- What do people use Cardiff Central Station for?
- to catch trains to other places ✓
- to catch planes to other places
- to catch ferries to other places
- to catch cars to other places
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- Complete the sentence. An express ______ service takes people from Cardiff city centre to the international airport.
- 'bus' ✓
- Match the words to the definitions.
- Cardiff Bay⇔a body of water on the Cardiff coast ✓
- Brecon Beacons⇔a National Park north of Cardiff ✓
- Penarth⇔a town near Cardiff reached by Aquabus ✓
- River Severn⇔a body of water that the M4 motorway crosses ✓
- Complete the sentence. Wales is connected to ______ by the M4 motorway.
- 'England' ✓
Exit quiz
- Where does the River Taff begin?
- Brecon Beacons ✓
- Cardiff Bay
- Penarth
- Pontyprydd
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- Which of these historic people was an engineer?
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel ✓
- William Shakespeare
- Charles Dickens
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- Match the words to the definitions.
- course⇔the path taken by a river ✓
- divert⇔to make something change direction ✓
- source⇔where a river starts ✓
- mouth⇔where a river enters the sea or a lake ✓
- Which of these species would you find in the River Taff?
salmon ✓
shark
tropical fish
- Complete the sentence. A lot of pollution in the River Taff came from the ______ industry.
- 'coal' ✓
What problem is shown in the picture?- dirt
- rubbish
- pollution ✓
- plastic
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Key learning points
- The River Taff flows from the north to the south of the city and drains into Cardiff Bay, a freshwater lake.
- Over 200 years ago, a famous engineer called Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the course of the River Taff.
- Cardiff Station was then built in an area that used to flood before the river was diverted.
- The River Taff used to be heavily polluted but is now home to trout, salmon and other wildlife.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that rivers simply stop or disappear, rather than flow into a larger water body.
All rivers are part of the water cycle; water in a river flows overland along its course until it reaches a larger body of water, often at the coast. For example, water from the River Taff flows into Cardiff Bay.
Keywords
Course - The course of a river is the path it takes from its source at the start to its mouth at the end
Freshwater - Freshwater is water that is not salty
Divert - To divert something is to make it take a different route
Pollution - Pollution is anything that makes the environment dirty or unhealthy
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