Barrier+Islands


 * Title:Barrier Islands

Explanation of Topic (Definition, Key Points, Details) Barrier Islands- narrow sandbars parallel to, but separated from, the coast at distance from 3 to 30 kilometers offshore. These barrier islands can be a major tourist attractant because of there location on the coast. This means that they can make a lot of money but can also cost a lot of money. By this I mean that they may make a lot of money but by having a lack of natural resources this means that most of there materials have to be shipped in. These islands are often a major supplier of seafood though because of their location to the ocean. This is a major income for those islands because they can sell to other places and use for there own consumption. The outer banks are a major barrier island that is mentioned a lot in the talk of barrier islands. They have been cut off from the mainland from along time and is very large.
 * Can often be cut off from other mainland and can be hard to evacuate during times of emergency.
 * Can suffer from mass wave erosion because of its isolation from mainland.
 * Often have a mass lack of natural resources because of there small size and soil quality.
 * There are over 300 barrier islands that rim the coast.

Visual Examples (Pictures, Graphics, Animations)



This is a picture of the outer banks in North Carolina.

Links to more information:

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/cede_smsandvol/309

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/issues/barrier-island.htm

Interesting Facts or Discoveries: Barrier Islands are belived to not of been formed intill after the Ice age. Before the Ice age scientist belive that because of the great amount of land that was covered in ice their was no place for these islands to be formed.


 * Works Cited:
 * Earth and envirnmental science book
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