Coastal
This is swash.
What is the water that falls up the shore?
List three types of coastal management strategies.
What is dredging, training walls, breakwater, sand pumping jetty, rock walls, groynes, artificial reefs, vegetation of dunes?
This is the highest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
A measurement of how financially important landscapes and landforms are
What is an economic value?
the distance above sea level of a spot on Earth's surface.
This is backwash.
What is the water that runs back into the ocean?
The purpose and effect of training walls in coastal management.
Purpose: to prevent sand from blocking a harbour or river mouth. Effect: Stabilised river mouth.
The three types of mountains.
What is fold, block and volcanic?
The ability of a landscape or landform to elicit pleasure based on its beauty and uniqueness.
What is an aesthetic value?
A large elevation on the Earth’s surface.
What is a mountain?
This is the characteristics of destructive waves.
What is waves that erode and destroy sections of coast are known as destructive waves.
◦They are tall and frequent, which means they crash into the shoreline, digging out large chunks of land and eroding the beach and creating erosional landforms.
◦The swash is weaker than the backwash and this results in the soil, nutrients and sand being drawn back into the sea rather than being deposited on land.
The purpose and effect of a sand pumping jetty in coastal management.
Purpose: To facilitate the movement of sand where longshore drift is inhibited by groynes/training walls etc.
Effect: Enabling the continuation of longshore drift of sand around the river mouth.
Human Impacts:
Explain how introduced species can alter and impact Australia's mountain landscape.
Introduced species such as foxes and feral cats prey on the Mountain Pygmy Possum and other native wildlife. Wild brumbies over consume grasses, trample fragile ecosystems, erode waterways and destroy habitats.
The value attributed to the landscape or landform’s association with religious, sacred, or symbolic meanings.
What is a spiritual value?
A sandy or pebbly shore.
What is a beach?
This is the characteristics of constructive waves.
What is waves that are long and low. The swash is slow and strong which means that materials are deposited onto the shore and not dragged back into the sea?
The purpose and effect of dredging in coastal management.
Purpose: Maintain tidal flushing by keeping the river mouth entrances open
Effect: Removal of sand from waterways, creating deeper water (for vessels to pass through)
Human Impacts:
Explain how cattle grazing can alter and impact Australia's mountain landscape.
Cattle grazing causes environmental damage including overconsumption of grasses, trampling banks of streams and springs, faeces pollute water, spread weeds, cause soil erosion. OR Help reduce the risk of serious bushfires (contentious).
A landscape or landform’s importance is expressed by people through creative means such as poetry, literature, art and films.
What is a cultural value?
A low area enclosed by mountains.
What is a valley?
This is longshore drift.
What is the waves break on the beach at an angle of around 45 degrees, the swash moves beach material along the beach and the backwash pulls the material back down the beach at right angles to the coastline - over time this creates a shift of material along the coast?
A social, environmental and economic impact of tsunamis.
Social: Deaths, Displaced people, Injuries, Disease
Environmental: Destruction of natural habitats, Loss of fresh water, Species decline
Economic: Reconstruction costs, No tourism, Economy weakens, Cost of building early detection facilities
Human Impact:
Explain how building ski resorts alter and impact Australia's mountain landscapes.
Using mountain landscapes for tourism in this way impacts on native wildlife such as the Mountain Pygmy Possum. The habitat of this native animal is destroyed to clear ski runs of rocks, which interrupts the mating cycle. The animals are also at increased risk of being hit by vehicles.
Aesthetic: Any = Looks Beautiful
Spiritual: Wetland = Sacred Site / Rock Art
Cultural: Rivers or Mountains = Dreamtime Story
Economic: Any = Tourism or Mining
A high, rocky outcrop of land.
What is a headland?