Rocks and Landscapes

In this unit you will find out the answers to the following questions:

1. How was limestone formed and why is it special?
2. What are the main features of a limestone landscape?
3. How did glaciation help to create the landscapes around us?
4. Why is the coast eroding more quickly in some places rather than others?
5. How can we manage the coasts?

You will develop the following skills:

1. Identifying landscape features
2. Describing and explaining physical landscape features
3. Investigating change in places
4. Asking geographical questions
5. Using an extended geographical vocabulary

Key words to learn

Abrasion, bedding plane, boulder clay, clints, glaciation, gorge, grykes, igneous, joints, limestone pavement, long-shore drift, metamorphic, plucking, sedimentary