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Material resources - AQA Synergy - GCSE Combined Science - AQA Synergy - Video
21+ hour, 18+ min ago (85+ words) Add your subjects to find the right study guides, track progress and keep everything in one place. Metals and other useful resources can be extracted from the Earth's crust. Life cycle assessments measure the environmental impact of a product over…...
Coastal transportation and deposition - Coasts: Video playlist
2+ week, 4+ day ago (58+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC Coastal transportation and deposition This video can not be played Longshore drift transports sand and shingle along the coastline. This video demonstrates how swash and backwash move material in a zigzag motion and how beaches form when…...
Coastal deposition landforms - Coasts: Video playlist
2+ week, 4+ day ago (77+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC Add subjects, save guides and continue where you left off with your BBC account. Longshore drift transports sediment in a zigzag motion and deposition occurs when waves lose energy. This video explores depositional landforms along the Holderness…...
Coastal erosion processes - Coasts: Video playlist
2+ week, 4+ day ago (58+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC This video can not be played The Holderness coast in northeast England is one of the fastest eroding coastlines in Europe. Factors like geology and human activity affect rates of erosion. This video explains how hydraulic action,…...
Coastal erosion landforms - Coasts: Video playlist
2+ week, 4+ day ago (63+ words) Coasts: Video playlist'BBC This video can not be played This video explains how geology affects rates of coastal erosion. Headlands made of resistant rock, like chalk at Flamborough Head, are gradually shaped into caves, arches and stacks. Weaker rocks, such…...
United Downs: UK switches on first geothermal power plant
2+ week, 1+ day ago (534+ words) A brand new type of power station has been switched on in south-west England - producing electricity using hot water from deep underground. The plant, located in Cornwall, is the first geothermal power plant in the country. It took nearly 20 years…...
Project to ease Scarborough coastal erosion set for approval
2+ week, 5+ day ago (583+ words) The scheme will look at natural methods to limit erosion A "100,000 scheme to tackle coastal erosion using "environmentally sustainable, nature-based solutions" is expected to be approved. "North Yorkshire Council is due to accept a "97,000 grant to mitigate coastal erosion at…...
Haolong dongi: 125-million-year-old 'spiny dragon' fossil found
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (275+ words) Image source, Fabio Manucci Experts say it's in such good condition, that it has allowed them to see what the dinosaurs' skin really looked like. The newly identified species has been named Haolong dongi, and belongs to the iguanodontian family....
Nuclear bunker nears collapse due to coastal erosion
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (811+ words) When it was built in the late 1950s the bunker was more than 100 yards from the sea A nuclear bunker is "just a few days" away from falling into the sea due to coastal erosion. The brick building, near Tunstall on…...
Hampshire boy aged eight travels to the ends of the earth
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (382+ words) An eight-year-old boy who has visited the ends of the earth with his parents has described his experiences as "unforgettable". Yuam, from Hedge End in Hampshire, has travelled to the world's polar regions, first crossing the Arctic Circle aged five....