snowdonia

• location detail

  • designated national park of 823m2
  • north-western wales - contains the highest peaks in the UK
• physical landscape

  • contains a full range of erosional landforms - ribbon lakes, glacial troughs, hanging valleys, aretes and corries
  • has more than 100 lakes of more than an acre
  • experiences freeze-thaw wealthier and plucking - creating corries
• landforms in Snowdonia 


  peak - snowdonia

  arete - crib goch

  u-shaped valley - Nant Ffrancon

  ribbon lake - llyn dinas
• human landscape

  • evidence of early human activity such as mining, medieval settlements and hill forts
  • land is farmed by upland sheep farmers
  • tourism is a major employer
  • the national trust owns large amounts of the national park and operates to preserve, maintain visitor access and promote safe use of the paths and trails
• human positive impacts

  • increase in rural income from high number of tourists
  • investment in tourism industry in creates jobs and help diversity and faming for local economy
• human negative impacts

  • footpath erosion, litter
  • more visitors = road congestion
  • welsh speaking communities become diluted
  • house prices rising due to second homes
  • tourists trample local flora such as rare arctic alpine
  • temperature in wales has risen over 1 degrees from 100 years ago
  • climate change = higher sea levels and more stroms, increased risk of flooding and extreme weather
  • deforestation = more runoff creating flooding and soil erosion