Holderness Flashcards

1
Q

Boulder clay Retreats … M a year

A

2

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2
Q

… Long

A

50km

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3
Q

…. Eroding coastline

A

Fastest in Western Europe

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4
Q

Ring borough farm retreated

A

75 acres in 75 years

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5
Q

SSSI conservation.

Spurn point birds…

A

Ring plover.little tern

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6
Q

Flam borough head birds

A

Puffins, guillemots

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7
Q

Places on coast

A

Withensee, easington, Bridlington, hornsee, Grimsby

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8
Q

River

A

Humber by hull

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9
Q

Tunstall caravan park lost

A

26m of coastline in a 2008 spring storm

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10
Q

Management

A

Lighthouse

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11
Q

Defences increase erosion in

A

Places like farmland

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12
Q

Farmers

A

Diversify, no compensation loss of land, rollback

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13
Q

Bridlington hornsee writhe see

A

Sea walls groynes Rock armour

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14
Q

Hornsee

A

Timber groynes. 150 years

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15
Q

Mappleton

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£1.9 mil to build, 34 km from cliff, 16000 tonnes of boulders. Gabions

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16
Q

Easington

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25% of nations gas

17
Q

Kilnsea

A

Residents built own flood bank

18
Q

Rollback

A

Sandy banks caravan park, every 4 caravans lost. Gets 5 new ones

19
Q

ABP

A

guide pilots up Humber, decreases risk of crashes

20
Q

… Villages destroyed since Roman times

A

14

21
Q

Flam borough head- .Rest Boulder clay

A

Chalk

22
Q

Weathering

A

Makes erosion easier to happen

23
Q

Where

A

East Yorkshire, NE England

24
Q

Farmland lost a year

A

80,000m

25
Q

Since Roman times … Km eroded

A

4

26
Q

How much protected

A

11.4km