Seaports of England

1. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales Seaports of England Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Dover Liverpool Plymouth Bristol

2. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales What is a Canal?

3. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales English landscapes 1 2 Rolling Hills e.g. North Downs 3 Mountain ranges or mountains 4 e.g. Lake District e.g. Pennine Chain

4. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales English landscapes 1 Flatland (Commons) 2 Marshland e.g.The Fens e.g. Portbury Common, North Somerset

5. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales English landscapes 1 Elevated plateau Moors Barren uplands 2 3 e.g. Cornwall e.g. Devon e.g. Bristol Channel 4 Chalk hills e.g. Dover

7. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales Scottish landscapes 1 Highlands 2 3 Southern Uplands Central Lowlands

8. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales Scottish landscapes 1 Peat 2 Heather ‘About three quarters of Scotland is made up of bog, rock and heather and peat soils’ Match the words bog, rock and heather to the pictures 3 Bog

9. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales Scottish landscapes 1 2 Firth irregular coastline 3 ‘Scotland has a very irregular coastline with inlets from the sea called firths… The Highlands contains narrow lakes or Lochs….’ Match the words irregularcoastlinefirths and Lochs to the pictures. Loch

10. 2.2. Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales Welsh landscapes 1 River Severn 2 Mount Snowdon Match these places with pictures 1-5 Cardigan Bay, Cambrian Mountains, River Severn, Mount Snowdon, Bala Lake 3 Cambrian Mountains 4 Bala Lake 5 Cardigan Bay

12. 2.2 Physiographic features of England, Scotland and Wales. Exercise Fill in the blanks for the paragraph below using the following words. Atlantic Britain Britain canals Cambrian Devon Downs England England English Channel Cornwall Fens Highlands Ireland Irish island firths lochs North Northern Ireland Pennines rivers Scotland seas Uplands The Geography of Britain Britain is an island country that is surrounded by three seas: the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the Irish Sea. Britain separated from Ireland and NorthernIreland by the Irish Sea and from France by the EnglishChannel. The most mountainous areas of are in the north of Britain: the Highlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland. The southern part of Britain contains smaller mountain ranges such as the Pennines in England and Cambrian Mountains in Wales and the rolling hills of England such as the Downs. England also has most of the flatland such as drained marshlands called the Fens and the moors of Devon and Cornwall. The south part of Britain also has the greatest number of rivers and canals while the northern part has many narrow lakes called lochs and sea inlets called firths.