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8-1 Coasts   

 

 

 3    The Purbeck coastline

Geog123   book 2

 

pages 10-11   1.4 Landforms created by the waves

pages 12-13   1.5 Along the Dorset coast

pages 14-15   1.6 How we use our coastal areas

 

 

Tilly Whim Caves   GR 031770

Durlston Country Park

 

Old Harry Rocks   GR  056826

 

Studland   GR 035835

 

Old Harry Rocks - photographs

Dorset aerial photographs

Dr Ian West pages on Old Harry

 

    The Purbeck coastline

 

Hard and soft rocks

Raffles School geography

 

  1. Answer question 4 from page 11, by drawing before and after sketch maps.

  2. Answer question 4 page 12 .. and add a sketch map of the geology

  3. Say what rocks are shown in each of the three photographs on the left of this page.

  4. For each photograph draw a sketch profile of the land as it becomes the coastline (a cross-section). Draw them one below the other, so they may be compared. Label each one with its name, location, and its rocks.

  5. answer questions 1&2 from page 12.

  6. Qns. 5 & 6 page 12.

 

Extension

  1. Answer question 7 from page 12.

  2. A development is proposed (Dream Leisure) for a part of the Purbeck coastline. there are many possible conflicts between different groups of people. Read pages 14-15 to find out more about the proposals (diagrams on page 15) and the planning process (at the bottom of page 14).

  3. Answer questions 4 & 5 page 15.

  4. Read questions 6 & 7, but answer them by writing out, in two columns, the positive and negative aspects of the leisure development proposals.

   

 

Coasts 1 Coastal environments

Coasts 2 Cliff and headland erosion

Coasts 3 Longshore drift

Coasts 4 Purbeck case study

Coasts 5 Cliff failure

Coasts 6 Holderness

Coasts 7 Rising sea levels

 

Year 8 work

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