Geography Limestone

Question 0

Uses of limestone

Answer 0

Building material, ingredient in the steel industry, making cement, aggregate for roads

Question 1

Formation of limestone pavement

Answer 1

Ice sheets remove the top soil revealing bare limestone, carbonic acid in rainwater dissolves the calcium carbonate in limestone which is then washed away by rainwater, joints in the rock are widened to form grykes with clints in between

Question 2

Benefits of quarrying

Answer 2

Creates jobs, brings money to the area, quarry company funds community projects

Question 3

Farmers conflict with national park authority

Answer 3

They want to modernise farms to increase profit but national park authority want to retain the traditional look of the countryside

Question 4

Tourists conflict with farmers

Answer 4

Tourists can leave gates open, damage crops, damage walls, block roads, let their dogs loose

Question 5

Tourists conflict with Environmentalists

Answer 5

Increase footpath erosion, increase traffic congestion and pollution, leave litter and dog waste

Question 6

Quarry pollution

Answer 6

Noise pollution from blasting, visual pollution created by large holes in the landscape, air pollution from dust which can be carried by lorries