Go to the NATIONAL WATER ARCHIVE. This is a list of gauging stations for the UK.
Choose the Anglian Region by clicking on the map.
You need to choose 20 rivers, and plot their Catchment area (in square kilometres) against Mean annual flow (in cumecs) at that particular gauging station.
Which variable will go on which axis ? Remember that the dependent variable has to go on the y axis.
Is there any obvious relationship ?
You could use Excel to copy the figures into, and add a best fit line when the scatter graph has been drawn.
Get a fresh piece of graph paper. You are going to do the same again, but this time for larger rivers: plot the following gauging stations in the same way:
Use an Atlas to identify the Water region, and also name one major city each river runs through. Note that each of these major rivers has several gauging stations at different points along its length. This will help to familiarise you with some of the UK's major rivers.
| RIVER | WATER AREA | MAJOR CITY ON ROUTE |
| SEVERN | ||
| TRENT | ||
| RIBBLE | ||
| TEES | ||
| OUSE | ||
| IRWELL | ||
| LUNE | ||
| LAGAN | ||
| CALDER | ||
| AIRE | ||
| DERWENT | ||
| ITCHEN | ||
| STOUR | ||
| EXE | ||
| ARUN | ||
| WYE | ||
| TAFF | ||
| DEE |