The English channel review Facts about the English channel

landform The English channel is apart of the Atlantic Ocean, and it separates the island of Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

uses It is today one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet. Impact on trade: The English Channel makes it convenient for people to ship products from overseas to other places throughout the world.

Details The Channel has traffic on both the UK-Europe and North Sea-Atlantic routes, and is the world's busiest seaway, with over 500 ships per day. In January of 1971 there was a terrible accident and a lot of dangerous collisions. Because of these collisions, the world's first radar-controlled Traffic Separation Scheme was set up by the International Maritime Organization. The scheme demanded that vessels travelling north must use the French side, travelling south the English side.

Habitable Dragonflies Spider crabs Star fish King scallops tubeworms whiting

uninhabitable people squirrels lions elephants dogs cats

73 year old man swims in the English channel Agriculture use Water is used for shipping, transporting, and tourism Some choose to swim in the water There is not much agriculture use in the English channel 73 year old man swims in the English channel

Word problems If there are a total of 180 tubeworms in the English channel but 10 whiting equally ate them all, how many tubeworms did each fish eat? (18) There are 325 ships on the English channel. If 120 ships Are transporting 30 cases of fish, how many cases of fish are there? (3,600)

formation How formed: caused by erosion that was by two major floods. When: 2007 Process detail: erosion and two major floods

Vocabulary erosion: the wearing away of sand, soil, or rock by water or wind Radar: is a system for locating objects by bouncing radio waves off of them catastrophic: is very harmful or disastrous theory: a belief that can guide behavior Data: information, specifically, facts and numbers used to analyze something or make decisions. trade: the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services Habitable: fit or suitable to live in or with

Additional notes & Research A 2007 study concluded the English Channel was formed by two major floods. The first was about 425,000 years ago, when an ice-dammed lake in the southern North Sea overflow and broke the Weald-Artois chalk range in a catastrophic erosion and flood events. It is about 350 miles long and varies in width from 150 miles at its widest to 20.7 miles in the Strait of Dover.