Transcript link here - Watford Grammar School for Boys Intranet

The Rock Cycle
Igneous Rocks
Metamorphic
Rocks
Magma
Sedimentary
Rocks
Dartmoor
What is the local Geology and how does it
affect the landscape?
How has granite affected both the physical
and human landscape of Dartmoor?
• Your task is to investigate the Granite
landscape of Dartmoor to answer this key
question.
• You can write this up as a guide for people
visiting the granite areas.
• May people have not seen such rugged and
dramatic scenery before and they will need
your guide to make sense of the landscape.
• Physical landscape
• You will need to write a
series of sections
showing how the granite
has affected the physical
landscape. These should
include,
• Tors
• Batholiths
• Weather and Climate
• Vegetation and soil types
• Human landscape
• You must now write a series
of sections clearly showing
how granite has also affected
the human landscape. The
sections will include:
• Evidence of granite
quarrying.
• Describe the type of farming
now found on the moor and
how granite controls what is
farmed.
• An account of the tourist
industry, which is the main
land use today, and how it is
linked to the granite.
What type of weather
would you expect up here
and why?
What is the soil and
vegetation like and why?
What is this dominant feature called?
How is it formed?
Why has granite
been used as a
building material?
Do you know that there
is a local quarry at
Coverack Bridges just
2km away fron school?
What is this feature?
What type of
farming do we get
here? Explain why.
Why do we get
tin mines on the
edge of granite
areas?