Y7 Limestone Landscapes

Which of the following are National Parks in the UK?

• Lake District

• York

• Yorkshire Dales

• Peak District

What is this a photo of?

• Clints and grykes

• Limestone pavement

• Sink hole

• Shake hole

How are grykes formed?

• onion skin weathering

• freeze thaw weathering

• chemical weathering

• biological weathering

Grykes is the name given to the blocks in between the gaps

• True

• False

Permeable rock means....

• It is easily eroded

• Water can travel through it

• Its is sedimentary rock

• Water cannot travel through it

Stalactites are found on the _______ of limestone caves

• ground

• walls

• ceiling

• surface

When stalactites and stalagmites meet each other, it creates a....

• limestone cavern

• limestone pavement

• limestone sinkhole

• limestone pillar

Gaping Gill is and example of what?

• limestone pillar

• underground chamber

• waterfall

• limestone sinkhole

How long is the waterfall inside Gaping Gill?

• 50m

• 110m

• three times as big as Niagara Falls

• 150m

Limestone landscapes have underground features because...

• They allow water to move through the rock

• They don't allow water to move through the rock

• The rock already has lots of holes in it

• The rock is eroded by onion skin weathering