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Geography School Based Assesment
What Are The Erosional And Depositional Features Located at Botany Bay and by Hectors River Jamaica Caused by Wave Action?

School: Wolmer’s Boys’ School Candidate Name:Wade Williams
Territory: Jamaica
Year: 2013

Table of Contents

Page

Aim of the study

Methodology

Location of Study Area

Presentation and analysis of Data

Conclusion

Bibliography

Aim of Study

The aim of this study is to observe wave patterns, features located along Hectors River and Botany Bay to identify how the sea waves have affected the various landforms. Also to identify the different type of coastal features observed.

Methodology

On Thursday October 4, 2012 the study area Botany Bay, St. Thomas and Hectors River, Portland, Jamaica were visited and a camera was used to take pictures of landforms and observations were done. Pictures were taken of important landforms and notebooks and pens were used to record information on the landforms that was of spoken by the teacher. A stopwatch was used to record the number of wave break patterns per minute and a calculator was used to computate the frequency of the wave breaks. Drawings of the landform were also done.

Secondary Data
Further research was done on coastal features, data was taken from the text book and drawings were made from topographic maps from the internet.

Location of Sudy Area

Map of Jamaica showing location of study area.

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Map of Portland showing study area.

Map of Hectors River, Portland.

Map of St. Thomas

Map of Botany Bay, St. Thomas

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Bibliography: London, Norrel and Mike Senior; Principles of geography for CXC: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, Enland, 1996 Rahil, Vohn: The New Caribbean geography with Map reading and CXC Questions: Caribbean Educational Publishers, Chaguanas, Trinidad 2002. Ask.com Google.com/images

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