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(i) Any two objectives of the study.
- To locate the different features
- To find out the main features associated with rift valley.
- Establish the land use around the area;
- To explain how the rift valley was formed.
ii) Three importance of studying faulting through fieldwork are:
- It enables the students to collect first information.
- It helps the student to develop manipulative skills
- It enables the students to develop co-operation with each other.
- It helps the student to apply the knowledge learned in the class room.
- -It makes learning interesting
- -It makes learning real
- -It provides detailed/broader learning or in depth learning.
- - It enhances vision memory.
iii) The significance of faulting to human activities.
- Faulting leads to formation of features that provides beautiful sceneries which attract tourists.
- Faulting leads to formation of lakes that are important fishing grounds/tourist sites/mining sites/provide water for
irrigation/domestic use/industrial use.
- Faulting leads to displacement of rocks which exposes minerals that are mined.
- Faulting may lead to formation of mountains/Horsts which attract rainfall on the wind ward side which favours
agriculture/settlement forestry.
- When faulting occurs across a ridge it may provide a dip which could form a mountain pass where transport and
communication liner can be constructed/may hinder development of transport.
- Subsidence of land as a result of faulting may lead to loss of life and property.
- Faulting may cause a river to change direction or disappear causing water shortage for the people downstream.
- Springs occurring at the foot of the fault scarps attracts settlements.
- Faulting creates a deep fault which are passages of steam jets which may be utilized for geo-thermo power projects.
- Rivers flowing over fault scarps may form waterfalls which may be suitable sites for Hydro-electric power
production. (H.E.P).
Kavungya answered the question on November 17, 2022 at 08:52
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