The Lake District

Question 1

Where is the Lake District

Answer 1

County of Cumbria, NW England

Covers 2,292 km2

Population of just over 42,000 people

National park with 16 lakes + smaller tarns

More then 150 high peaks ( 4 have peaks over 3000ft )

Highest mountain Scarfell Pike - 3206ft

Question 2

What is the Lake Districts highest mountain

Answer 2

Scafell pike - 3206 ft

Question 3

How vast and what is the population of the Lake District

Answer 3

2,292km2 with just over 42,000 people

Question 4

How many lakes does it have

Answer 4

16 lakes like Windermere and many smaller tarns such as the red tarn

Question 5

Skiddaw slates

Answer 5

Oldest
Formed as black muds and sand setting on the sea bed about 500 million years ago.

Since, they have been raised up and folded by tectonic forces

Found in the north with the mountains being typically smooth with many streams occupying deep gorges

Question 6

Borrowdale volcanics

Answer 6

Found in central

Very hard lava and ash was formed in larger eruptions 450 million years ago

Withstand erosion due to being persistent rock and make them highest mountains such as scafell, Helvellyn and Great Gable

Question 7

Windermere series

Answer 7

Made up of sedimentary mudstones, sandstones and limestones From the sea around 420 million years ago

After, folded and faulted, pushed up and eroded to form a gentler scenery of southern Lake District

Erosion has revealed outcrops in Eskdale, Ennerdale and at sharp.

Question 8

What is the current Lake District a result from?

Answer 8

The Pleistocene period

Question 9

How many Glaciations occurred in the Pleistocene period?

Answer 9

Over 20

Question 10

Deposition

Answer 10

As a result of recent phase of glaciations - Loch Lomond Stadial

Took place 12, 880 and 11,500 years ago

Question 11

What was the Loch Lomand Stadial

Answer 11

Glacial advance in upland Britain

Question 12

Erosion is an important factor in shaping the landscape

Answer 12

Helvellyn - 949m above sea level is one of Englands highest mountains and is an example of a pyramidal peak

Made up of igneous rock which was formed 450 million years ago

Large glaciers dominated the surrounding features around helvellyn with there erosive power carving out arêtes, corries and glacial troughs

Question 13

Erosional features

Answer 13

Helvellyn range - 11km long ridge over 600m high including a range of large glacial erosional landforms

Summit - pyramidal peak and has two corries on its flanks

Eg.red tarn a small lake in the corrie is separated from Nethermost Cove by the arête, Striding edge and in between swirral edge

Question 14

Depositional features - drumlins

Answer 14

Swindale

Extensive fields in south Kendal with drumlins lying on Carboniferous rocks which range from 50m to 125m high

Broad and rounded and often steep-sided