THE YELLOW RIVER LANDSCAPE
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2. How and Why? - FORMATION
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"When the Yellow River is at peace, China is at peace." - National Geographic
3. What are the Impacts
Landscape Formation:
- over a long period of time
- key factors - sediment deposition, tectonic activity
- First formed in Eocene period = 56 to 33.9 million years ago
- Many Human Uses and Natural impacts has shaped its state today
- Human Uses - hydro-electrics, irrigation
- Natural Impacts - tectonic activity, erosion, sediment deposition, glacial activity
- "Cradle of Chinese Civilisation"
- Source of water
- First tribes lived on its banks
1. What and Where? - FACTS
There are many negative impacts on the Yellow River, both natural and human that are having disastrous effects...
- NATURAL
- Main impact - Global Warming
- Resulting impacts for humans= starvation, thirst, disease
- HUMAN
- Main impact - Pollution and Overuse
- Resulting Impacts= starvation, thirst, disease, poverty
Here we can see goats or sheep. From this we can deduce that one use of the landscape is farming
Here is an image of the muddish silt of the Yellow. This suggests that sedimentation has had a great influence in shaping this landscape.
What?
- 5464km long
- riverine landscape
- 2nd largest river in Asia
- 6th largest river in world
Where?
- Located in: China, South-East Asia
- Source: Bayan Har Mountains
- Mouth: Bohai Sea
Investigating because has many serious negative impacts that need to solutions - we need to consider its sustainability now
Conclusion
- This landscape is in a bad condition
- We can fix it with a new rehabilitation scheme
The Yellow River - South-East Asia
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What are Solutions to these issues?
Scale:
World Map/ Unknown
Source:
Google Images
My Solutions
- Cut down on pollution
- Create more water treatment plants
- Reduce our human footprint
- Let nature heal itself
Three key solutions:
- Dams are being built to control flow and reduce flooding
- E.g. The Yellow River Dam
- The South-North Water Transfer Project is replenishing the Yellow's water supply from the Yangtze
- 44.8 billion cubic metres of diverted water per year
- Beijing's Cloud seeding program is aiming to technologically increase rainfall to replenish the Yellow's clean water
The underground tunnels of the South-North Water Transfer Project
Beijing's advanced cloud-seeding program.