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Limestone landscapes: the White Peak and Malham

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  • 35 marks
  • about 30 minutes
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Which rock makes up the White Peak in Derbyshire?

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Why is the White Peak so different from the Dark Peak? Find out how rainwater dissolves limestone to make pavements, swallow holes and caves, and how people use this landscape.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Locate: the White Peak, the Dark Peak and Malham
  5. Study: limestone landscape features
  6. How carbonation makes limestone features
  7. I Do: how limestone pavement forms
  8. Hinge Check
  9. Sort the effects of quarrying and tourism
  10. Responses: short term and long term
  11. Task — Limestone features: how each formed
  12. Model answer: the Dark Peak
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