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Investigative and fieldwork geology
Quick questions on Geological maps and grid references: reading a simplified map, the key, scale and grid references - Eduqas GCSE Geology
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What are grid references?Show answer
Features are located with grid references, read from the numbered grid lines. The rule is eastings first, then northings, remembered as "along the corridor, then up the stairs":
What is structures from the outcrop pattern?Show answer
The shape of the outcrop bands reveals the structures:
What is q1?Show answer
State the order in which you read the two parts of a grid reference. [1 mark]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain how a fault can be recognised from the outcrop pattern on a geological map. [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
State what a four-figure grid reference identifies. [1 mark]
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