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Quarrying in National Parks

Quarrying in National Parks creates difficult choices about jobs, raw materials, landscape protection and tourism. This GCSE Geography quiz explores the arguments, impacts, and possible compromises.

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Fascinating Fact:

Quarrying in National Parks is controversial because it can damage scenic beauty, disturb wildlife, and conflict with the parks' conservation purposes.

In GCSE Geography, you examine why quarrying sometimes happens inside National Parks, even though these areas are protected. You explore how decision makers balance the need for raw materials with conserving landscapes, habitats, and visitor enjoyment.

Key Terms

National Park: A protected area of countryside, coastline, or mountains managed to conserve natural beauty while allowing people to live, work, and visit.
Stakeholder: Any person or group with an interest in a decision, such as local residents, quarry companies, tourists, or conservation organisations.
Environmental impact assessment: A study that predicts how a development, such as a quarry, will affect the environment before it is approved.

Frequently Asked Questions (Click to see answers)

Why is quarrying allowed in some National Parks?

Quarrying may be allowed in some National Parks to provide important building materials and local jobs. Planning authorities weigh these benefits against environmental damage and can set strict conditions on how quarries operate.

What conflicts can quarrying cause in National Parks?

Quarrying can lead to conflicts over noise, dust, heavy lorry traffic, and scars on the landscape. Tourists and residents may oppose it, while quarry companies and workers support it for economic reasons.

How can quarrying in National Parks be managed more carefully?

It can be managed more carefully by limiting quarry size, controlling working hours, reducing traffic impacts, restoring sites after use, and involving local communities in decisions about new or expanded quarries.

Try These Related Quizzes

1 .

Which rock is quarried in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks?

Chalk

Limestone

Granite

Slate

There are other rock types in the parks but the main rock quarried is limestone

2 .

In the Cotswolds, a gravel quarry has been turned into a series of lakes and a wildlife reserve. Doing this to a quarry is called...

reworking

reservation

remaking

restoration

Restoration can be carried out to parts of a working quarry that are no longer in use or when a quarry has reached the end of its useful life

3 .

When a quarry has been exhausted, it can be used as...

a place to build a tourist attraction

a place for water sports

a wildlife reserve

all of the above

There are examples of all of these - the tourist attraction of the Eden Project has been built in a quarry in Cornwall and the Cotswold Water Park has been created from worked-out gravel pits to provide lakes for water sports and wildlife

4 .

Why might local residents in a national park be unhappy about the closure of a quarry?

Fewer tourists will visit the area to look at the quarry

The roads will no longer be swept by the local authority

There will be less employment

House prices will be halved

There is usually not much industry in a national park as they are mainly rural areas, so if a quarry is closed, more people will be unemployed and have to commute to find work

5 .

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

Quarrying in a national park is sustainable

Quarries provide employment in national parks

Quarries in national parks can be screened by planting trees

The passage of many lorries every day damages the roads in national parks

No quarrying of rock is sustainable as it takes millions of years for rocks and minerals to form

6 .

Other than quarrying, which of the following is important to the local economy of a national park?

Brewing

Tourism

ICT

Steelmaking

Many businesses in national parks are geared up to make their profits from tourists

7 .

What usually happens before a quarry can be opened or extended in a national park?

The quarry owners must gain planning permission

Nothing, there are no restrictions to quarrying

The prime minister of the UK must sign a document authorising the quarry

Trees need to be planted

Quarrying provides income to local councils through taxation

8 .

Which of the following would help to reduce the impact of a quarry on a national park?

Working the quarry only at night

Building a new railway line to transport the quarried products

Restricting the size of the quarry and the working hours

All of the above

Working the quarry at night would be more disturbing to local residents and probably the wildlife. Transport by rail is a better solution than road, but for large quarries only. The railway construction work would damage the national park

9 .

As well as national parks, quarries are sometimes opened near to sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs). What is an SSSI?

An artificially-constructed nature reserve

A field studies centre that specialises in the study of science

An area that is legally protected by law because of the wildlife or geology found there

A place set aside for secret research by the government

Sites of special scientific interest can be set up anywhere, they are not just found in national parks

10 .

What attracts people to a national park?

Scenery and landscape

Outdoor activities

Visitor centres

All of the above

There are two types of visitor to national parks - day trippers and holidaymakers

Author: Kev Woodward (PGCE, Science & Chemistry Teacher, Quiz Writer)

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