Holderness Flashcards
1
Q
Boulder clay Retreats … M a year
A
2
2
Q
… Long
A
50km
3
Q
…. Eroding coastline
A
Fastest in Western Europe
4
Q
Ring borough farm retreated
A
75 acres in 75 years
5
Q
SSSI conservation.
Spurn point birds…
A
Ring plover.little tern
6
Q
Flam borough head birds
A
Puffins, guillemots
7
Q
Places on coast
A
Withensee, easington, Bridlington, hornsee, Grimsby
8
Q
River
A
Humber by hull
9
Q
Tunstall caravan park lost
A
26m of coastline in a 2008 spring storm
10
Q
Management
A
Lighthouse
11
Q
Defences increase erosion in
A
Places like farmland
12
Q
Farmers
A
Diversify, no compensation loss of land, rollback
13
Q
Bridlington hornsee writhe see
A
Sea walls groynes Rock armour
14
Q
Hornsee
A
Timber groynes. 150 years
15
Q
Mappleton
A
£1.9 mil to build, 34 km from cliff, 16000 tonnes of boulders. Gabions