Beaches
Soft/Hard Engineering
Synoptic Chart
Types of Erosion
100

The most studied beach for coastal erosion in the world?

Narrabeen/Collaroy

100

Narrabeen/Collaroy has a controversial one

Sea wall

100

Winds move in a clockwise direction

Low pressure system

100

Waves smashing on rocks

Hydraulic action

200

This Class's Favourite Beach

Freshwater
200

The best type of coastal management

Dune management

200

Winds move in an anticlockwise direction

High pressure system

200

Chemicals erode away the rock

Corrosion

300

Mr Morris studied this beach in his exemplar video

Manly

300

Sand is taken from somewhere and dumped on the beach

Beach nourishment

300

The website you go to to find a synoptic chart

BOM

300

The opposite of constructive waves

Destructive waves

400

This beach is a tombolo

Palm Beach

400

Perpendicular walls that help trap sand as it moves along the beach

Groyne

400

What type of system does a cyclone usually come from?

Low Pressure system

400

A type of current that runs parallel to the shore

Lognshore drift

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