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  • This is a permeable rock
    Limestone
  • This is a porous rock.
    Clay
  • Clays eroded in the Downs leaving behind chalk what?
    Escarments
  • When a v-shaped valley dries it leaves a dry valley. Name an example in the South Downs.
    Devil's Dyke
  • What county is Dartmoor in?
    Devon
  • Plates colliding form upland or lowland areas?
    Upland area
  • What mineral is in chalk?
    Calcite
  • A gentle slope is called a....
    Dip slope
  • Which rock was formed from dead sea creatures?
    Limestone/chalk
  • Name a sedimentary rock
    Limestone/Chalk/Sandstone
  • What mineral is found in limestone?
    Calcium carbonate
  • A named example of a UK lowland area.
    The North & South Downs
  • Name an Igneous rock
    Granite/Basalt
  • What counties is the North & South Downs in.
    Kent & Sussex
  • How many years ago years ago was the Cretaceous Period?
    75 million years ago
  • Which rock group can contain twisted and malformed fossils.
    Metamorphic
  • Name a metamorphic rock
    Marble/gneiss/quartzite
  • A steep sided slope is called?
    Scarp slope
  • Which rock group experiences compaction and cementation?
    Sedimentary
  • Which rock groups is made of randomly arranged, interlocking big crystals.
    Igneous
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