http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yefQb1y6uQg

Tasks:1. Stick in the diagram of limestone scenery leaving some space around the edge.2. Describe the different features by adding defintions to your diagram.

Definitions• An enlarged joint into which water falls• A bare rocky surface with distinctive blocks and enlarged

joints• A stumpy calcite feature formed on a cavern floor• A crack or line of weakness in a rock• A valley formed left behind by a river during a wetter period

but now without a river• An icicle like calcite feature hanging down from a cavern

roof• A large hole underground left behind by water eroding the

rock

http://www.mothershiptonscave.com/media.htmlhttp://www.wookey.co.uk/witch.htm

Myths and legends associated with limestone landscapes:

Wookey Hole cave, Somerset

Petrifying well, Yorkshire

See its magical cascading waters turn items into stone!

How do caves form?

Watch the animation on The Geographer Online