"Rivers in rural areas are much more natural than those in urban areas".

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INTRODUCTION

The title I have chosen for my coursework is “rivers in rural areas are much more natural than those in urban areas”. I have chosen this title mainly because it interests me more than the other titles. This is the only physical topic, and so it interests me more than any of the others.

This project involves me in to going to an urban area, Bexley-Village, to examine a river and to go to examine a river in a rural area, which would be South-Darenth.

MAP OF BEXLEY

Bexley village is a small village in Kent, South East England.

MAP OF SOUTH-DARENTH

South Darenth is a small town not too far away from Bexley village.

There are three or four different types of data, which I will need to collect. They are the width and depth of the river, data about the wildlife in and near the river, pollution in the river, and finally vegetation, which grows in or near the river.

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I will have to record the width and depth of the river in different parts of it, to see how the information varies. If the river does vary often then we are probably looking at a river in more of a rural area. This is because in an urban area the banks of the river are sometimes been reinforced so that it does not erode. Some of the rivers have been reinforced to change the direction in which the river flows. An example of this is the river shuttle; it had been reinforced because otherwise it would flow over ...

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