Coasts Keywords

Year 11 Revision: COASTS

Key Words

Headlands and Bays

Bar

Attrition

Backwash

Constructive

Beach

Holderness Destructive Coast

Wave Cut Platform

Solution

Transport

Cave

Hydraulic Action

Longshore Drift

Abrasion Cliffs

Erosion

Find 4 Examples of depositional landforms 1. ______________________

Swash Stack Tombolo

Deposition

Spit Stump Arch

Choosing from the keywords in the table . . . . . Find 4 types of erosion 1. where particles hit against each other and become more rounded _____________________________ 2. where the force of water hitting the rocks causes erosion _____________________________ 3. where rock and sand carried by the sea hit against cliffs and other rock surfaces _____________________________ 4. where sea water dissolves minerals in rocks ____________________ Find two types of waves 1. Waves that build up the beach _________________________ 2. Waves that destroy the beach _________________________

2. ______________________ 3. ______________________ 4. ______________________ Find 7 examples of landforms formed by erosion 1. ______________________

5. ______________________

2. ______________________

6. ______________________

3. ______________________

7. ______________________

4. ______________________

What are the following also known as? 1. Transport of material along the coastline ___________________ 2. Movement of water up the beach ________________________ 3. Movement of water down the beach ______________________ 3 processes by which the sea changes the coastline 1. ________________________ 2. ________________________ 3. ________________________ A case study of Coastal erosion _____________________________

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