College Example Essays

A graded channel is a channel with an idealised smooth concave long profile: a steep youthful source declining into an elongated gentle elderly channel downstream toward its mouth. According to Collard ‘As rivers evolve through time they appear to work towards the achievement of a smooth, concave profile … from …

Now that I have finished carrying out my investigations both on river processes at Dovedale and the tourist pressure which occurs in a honeypot in Castleton, I have now finally reached a conclusion based on my findings of each experiment. I will give an analytical overview of what I have …

Net accumulation and net ablation together make up the glacial budget. Net accumulation occurs at higher altitudes and therefore lower temperatures, meaning less melting of ice and a larger build up of snow. This area is called the zone of net accumulation. In the winter snow builds up to become …

Section 1 – Applied understanding Why? We are doing this study to test all the text book theories. It brings all the ideas that we read in a book to real life, we can see exactly what happens for ourselves we get the chance to record the results ourselves also …

Drainage basins are areas in which water drains from higher land to lower land and eventually meets the sea or a lake. Water that flows on top of land along a certain path is said to be in a channel. The argument in this essay is whether drainage basins and …

The title I have chosen for my coursework is “rivers in rural areas are much more natural than those in urban areas”. I have chosen this title mainly because it interests me more than the other titles. This is the only physical topic, and so it interests me more than …

Here is a detailed view of the drainage basin of the Whitewell Brook. The drainage basin is clearly marked with the thick red line. Describing the characteristics of the Whitewell Brook drainage system. The Whitewell Brook drainage system is in the Pennines. It is a very complex system that flows …

Hydrological cycle is the continuous cycle of water between the land, sea and atmosphere. A River is a very important part of the hydrological cycle; it is a form of surface run-off. For this course work I will be studying rivers. The river that I will be study is the …

Over the years human influences have affected the Ouse. The river Ouse is the principle drainage basin in Yorkshire and is naturally very large, covering 10,770 square km. It has four main tributaries; they are the Wharfe, Derwent, Aire and Don, these all contribute to the Ouse having a large …

This investigation is about river channels. We will be investigating the difference between a straight section and a meandering section. Choice of Site? The river we are studying is Millbrook, in the Ashdown forest just south of East Grinstead. The Ashdown Forrest is between 6 major roads, the A23, A272, …