The UK's Landscape
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- Created on: 17-04-19 14:41
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- UK Landscape
- Upland and lowland areas have different characteristics
- Upland
- North and west of UK.
- Harder rocks, glaciated landscape.
- Cooler and wetter climate.
- Steep land, thin soils- too steep for farming equipment and machinery.
- Sheep farming, quarrying and tourism.
- Forestry.
- Lowland
- South and East of the UK.
- Softer rocks - chalk, sandstone.
- Gently rolling hills. Warmer and drier.
- Quarrying, tourism, dairy and arable farming.
- Urban areas & Industry.
- Glaciated Landscapes
- Down to about where Wales is used to be covered in ice.
- Carved out valleys- erosion.
- Deposition of material as ice melted.
- South of the line divide- glacial meltwater.
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