Students from a school near Mt. Kenya were planning to carry out a field study on the glaciated features on the top of the mountain. (i)...

      

Students from a school near Mt. Kenya were planning to carry out a field study on the glaciated features on the top of the mountain.
(i) Give the reason why it would be difficult to undertake the field study on the glaciated features on the mountain.
(ii) Describe how students would use a photograph of Mt. Kenya to identify the glaciated features on the mountains.

  

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Kavungya
i) Why it is difficult to carry out field study of glaciated feature.
- Climbing the mountain is difficult due to rugged terrain.
- Features are found far from the schools/settlements
- Time may be inadequate
- Poor weather conditions i.e. rainfall and low temperatures
- Thick forest and dangerous animals which makes it difficult to
access such areas.
- It is difficult to conduct a previsit
- Avalanches
ii) How students would use the photograph of Mt. Kenya to identify
the glaciated features.
- By dividing it into parts
- By observing and identifying the features in each part of the photograph
- By recording the features observed
- By drawing sketches of the features observed
- By labeling the features observed.
Kavungya answered the question on June 8, 2019 at 06:39


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