What are the physical features of the United Kingdom?

Answer 1

Mountain ranges, hills, valleys, lakes, lochs, loughs, dales, moors, forest galore, White Cliff of Dover, limestone caverns and other
Grampians Mountain....... Cambrian Mountains........Thames River those are the major ones anyway.........
The mountains in Scotland and Wales and the low lying Fens in East Anglia.

Answer 2

England is mostly flat with no major mountains. Rivers such as the Thames are very important to London and the English economy. The Atlantic Ocean is very important since England is an island.

The Ashdown Forest is the biggest forest in South England.

Answer 3

England is a land of rolling hills. It is more mountainous in the north, with a chain of mountains, the Pennines, dividing east and west. South of the Tees-Exe line there are larger tracts of flatter land. The largest natural harbor in England is at Poole, on the south-central coast.

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Surely this is in the wrong category? England's not in the United States of America, I'll have you know, despite the "In... " line above!

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The Higher hills of the North of England are actually quite rugged, the Lake District particularly being mountains, though adjacent to, not part of, the Pennines. Wide open, bleak, sandstone moorland is typical in much of the region, incised by fertile valleys; a large part of the Pennine Hills is a major karst (limestone) area.

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The East tends to be flatter generally, though it has some ranges of hills contrasting with the low-lying Norfolk plain. Much of the South of England is rolling hill country from the granite moors in Cornwall and Devon, via the Mendip Hills, to the Chalk Downs of Dorset and the South-East, broken by a large patch of heathland in the middle.

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Poole Harbour is not only England's largest natural harbour, it's the world's second largest, behind Sydney Harbour.

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The country's features are extremely varied given that England alone would fit a rectangle not much more than 400 miles "high" (N-S) by 200 wide, thanks to possibly the most varied geology in the world, at least for such a relatively compact area.

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Strictly speaking though you should count the British Isles in entirety for physical geography, because geology and geomorphology do not obey man-made boundaries, but even then our enclosing rectangle would be perhaps 900 miles by 400.

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In total it holds physical features formed nearly all the major geological mechanisms going. It has extinct volcanoes and other igneous rocks with the effects of earth movements (folding and uplift or lowering) some related to continental collision, some to rifting. Its landforms reflect glaciers and tundra, rivers, the sea, deserts and a whole gamut of sedimentary rocks and their typical landscapes such as karst (chalk and limestone).

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Its minerals have included many metals, coal, petroleum and natural gas, as well as many types of building stone.

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This lot gives a corresponding biological diversity thanks to combinations of soil types, water bodies and the altitudes and aspects of hills - even before considering the climate.

Answer 4

There are lots of physical features of England, these include:

White cliffs of Dover

Pennines

Lakes of the Lake District (Lake Windermere, Lake Buttermere)

River Thames

Ashwood Forrest

Cheddar Gorge

Dartmoor

Answer 5

Some of the main Physical Features of England are The London River also called The River of Thames, this river is very important to London & the England economy. The Atlantic Ocean is important to England because England is an island.In Southern England the biggest forest is The Ashdown Forest.

Answer 6

It depends on what is meant by natural features.

See the Related Link for an overview of England, including its history and geography.

Answer 7

England is mainly flat or low-lying in the south the mountains are found in the north.

Answer 8

Hills, mountains, flat lands, valleys, rivers, coasts, islands, towns, cities, villages.

Answer 9

Thames river is right next to the Big Ben.