Describing site
Describing site is not difficult! Here is what you need to know.
Describing site checklist
To describe a site, you should mention its:
Relief:
height - below 100m = low; above 100m = high
slope - flat or gentle/moderate/steep slope
land forms - e.g. plain, valley, hill-foot, hill-top, gap, dry-point site, coast.
Drainage (water features) - e.g. wet-point site, rivers, lakes, marshes.
When describing site, it is important to mention something about each of the checklist points.
Further Things to Do
Practise describing sites on OS maps - choose settlements of different sizes and in different types of locations e.g. inland and on the coast, low/high etc.