Theme 1
Landscapes and Physical Processes

1.1.1 - What makes landscapes distinctive in the UK?

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Learning Objectives

• An overview of the distribution of major types of landscape in the UK to include the relationship with geology (for example, upland and lowland regions) 

• The location of significant river and coastal landscape features. 

• Factors that make UK landscapes distinctive (for example, land use, culture, geology and vegetation).

Resources

• Video - England from the Air

• Map Resource

1.1.2 - How are physical landscapes in the UK affected by human activity?

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Learning Objectives

• The environmental challenges created by human activity in one distinctive landscape to include the positive and negative impacts of visitor pressure and changing rural economies and societies.

• The concepts of honey pot sites and carrying capacity.

Resources

• Video - Visit Dartmoor

• Booklet - Enjoy Dartmoor Magazine

1.1.3 - How can landscapes in the UK be managed?

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Learning Objectives

• Strategies to manage the landscape, to include management of visitors and to repair damage to landscapes or environments under pressure (for example footpath maintenance). 

Resources

• Link - Mend Dartmoor Crowdfunding

• Video - Dartmoor by Bike

• Video - Using a Quadrat

• Link - Dartmoor Erosion Sites

• Leaflet - Dartmoor Footpath Erosion Info

• Link - Haytor  Info

• Link - Moor Otters Project

1.2.1a  - How do processes work together to create RIVER  landform features 

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Learning Objectives

• How and why river landforms (of different scales) change over time.

• Processes of fluvial erosion (abrasion, attrition, hydraulic action and solution), transportation (saltation, solution, suspension and traction) and deposition which result in the development of landforms to include v-shaped valleys, waterfalls, gorges, floodplains and meanders and their associated smaller scale features to include slip-off slopes in meanders and plunge pools in waterfalls.

Resources

• Video - Rivers - Human Planet

• Video - Sticky does River Processes

• Video - River Tees - From source to mouth

• Online Game - World Rivers Quiz

• Video - Meander Formation

• Animation - Meander Formation (Use Internet Explorer)

• Video - River Journey Revision Song

1.2.1b  How do processes work together to create COASTAL landform features

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Learning Objectives

• How and why coastal landforms (of different scales) change over time. 

• Slope and coastal processes that result in cliff retreat to include weathering, rock falls and landslides.

• Links between sediment supply/coastal erosion (abrasion, attrition, hydraulic action), transport (including longshore drift) and deposition that have resulted in the development of distinctive coastal features to include headlands/bays, cliffs, wave-cut platforms, arches, stacks, beaches and spits and their associated smaller scale features to include rock pools, wave-cut notches and bedding planes.

Resources

• Video - The Distant Shores Movie

• Link - WWF - Coasts Under Threat

• Link - BBC - Plastic Pollution

• Video - Constructive Waves

• Video - Destructive Waves

• Template - Wave Diagram

• Link - BBC - Waves Destroy Dawlish Train line

• Link - BBC - Trainline Reopens

• Video - Cliff Collapse in Cornwall

• Video - 4 Types of Coastal Erosion

• Link - The British Geographer - Coastal Processes

• Link - Sub Aerial Processes - Time for Geography

• Video - BBC Formation of A Stack Old Harry pt 1

• Video - BBC Formation of A Stack Old Harry pt 2

• Video - Why do we have Tides?

• Video - Longshore Drift

• Animated - Spit Formation (Must use Internet Explorer here)

• Video - Formation of a Spit

1.2.2 What factors affect the rates of landform change in river and coastal landscapes in the UK?

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Learning Objectives

• How factors affect rates of landform change. 

  • Geology to include the relative resistance and structure of local rocks

  • Climate to include:  prevailing wind ; river discharge; extreme weather events on rates of landform change in both river and coastal environments and fetch.

  • Human activity management of river and coastal landforms to reduce the effects of erosion, and unintended consequences of human intervention 

Resources

• Link - BBC Happisburgh House Destroyed

• Link - BGS - Geology of Happisburgh

• Link - BBC Norfolk Tidal Surge

• Video - Scarborough Tidal Surge

• Leaflet - North Norfolk Coastal Management

• Video - Holderness Coastal Erosion and Management

• Video - Bournemouth and Coastal Protection

• Leaflet - North Norfolk Coastal Management - Geoactive

• Task sheet - Sea Palling and Happisburgh Task Sheet

1.3.2 - Why do rivers in the UK flood?

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Learning Objectives

• The ways in which physical factors to include climate, vegetation and geology, affect discharge and annual regimes.

• Human factors (for example, changing land use) that result in river flooding. 

• The analysis of hydrographs. 

• A study of the causes and effects of flooding in at least one location in the UK.

Resources

• Kahoot - Drainage Basin Terminology

• Task Sheet - Hydrograph Analysis Task

• Video - Hong Kong Sponge City

1.3.3 - Solutions to the problem of flooding in the UK

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Learning Objectives

• Strategies for river channel and drainage basin management in the UK to reduce the risk of flooding. 

• Coverage must include ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ engineering and land use zoning.

• Conflicting views over river/floodplain management and floodplain development (for example, the building of new homes) which may lead to alternate geographical futures in the UK.

Theme 1 Key Words

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