LANSCAPE

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Landscape

The British is a patchwork of different elements.
There are two areas: area of high land in the north and west; and a vast area of low in the south and east.
The coastline British is one of the most beautiful in the word and has a lot ok variety forms.
It range wild, rocky coast of Scotland and Northern Ireland

Mountains

There are four major groups of mountains in Britain, all situated in the north west of the country.
• They are the Scottish Highlands and Grampians,*
• the Pennines,
• the Lake District Umbrian Mountains
• the Cambrian Range in Wales.
*The Grampians are the highest mountains chain in Britain and extend across Scotland’s land area.
Inside the Grampian range are two of Britain’s highest peaks:
➢ Ben Nevis
➢ Ben Macdhui

The southern of Scotland has gentler hills, the Southern Uplands,which are linked by the Cheviot Hills to the mountains backbone of northern England, the Pennines.
In the north west of Britain are the beautiful hills of Cumbria and the Lake District, an area whith beautiful lake and peaks, the highest of which is then Scaffel Pike.
Most of Wales is covered by beautiful Cambrian Mountains with Wale’s highest peak, mount Snowdow.

Lakes, rivers and ports

Britain’s largest lake, Lough Neagh is in Northern Ireland, an area rich in lakes and rivers.
Most of lakes in Britain are in Wales, Scotland and the north west of England.
Then same areas also the source of many of Britain’s major rivers such as the Severn, the largest river in Britain, the Wye in Wales and the Forth and Clyde in Scotland.
Most British rivers are not very long, but are navigable and have contributed to the expand industries along their valleys. The estuaries flow into of sites of many important river ports, like Hull, Newcastle, Liverpool and Bristol in England, and Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland.
The most famous river in Britain is the Thames which flown into south of England into the North Sea. It runs thought important cities and towns like Oxford, Windsor and London and is know for their banks.

Climate

It are:
• Variability: the whether change day to day;
• The relatively limited variation in temperature over the day;
• Rain at all times of the years, with an average annual rainfall of more than 102cm.
The climate is temperate with cool summers and mild winters to the influence of the Gulf Stream.
Rainfall is higher in the mountains areas of the east and north.
Sunshine is frequently in the south at sea level and on the coast rather than Ireland-

THE UK ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

The UK has a capital economy.
The private sector account for about four fifths of both output and employment; over the past two decades the governaments has reduced public ownership of key servi