Processes
The process that wears away rocks and beaches?
What is erosion?
These are created when wind blows across water.
What are waves?
A common landform which is the result of constructive waves action laying down sand.
What is a Beach?
People visit coastal areas for relaxation, water sports, and sightseeing.
What is tourism?
Large concrete walls built at the base of cliffs to reflect wave energy.
What are sea walls?
The movement of water perpendicular down the beach and back to the sea called.
What is Backwash?
The role vegetation plays for sand dunes.
What stabilises the dune and prevents erosion by wind?
A naturally formed arch in a rock along the coast, caused by wave erosion.
What is an arch?
This industry involves catching fish and seafood for food and trade.
What is commercial fishing?
Planting vegetation on sand dunes to help stabilize them.
What is dune revegetation?
A process that adds new sand to a beach?
What is Deposition?
When sand from the beach is blown inland these are formed.
What are Dunes?
The flat area left behind when a cliff retreats due to erosion.
What is a wave-cut platform
Coastal wind and wave power can be used to generate this.
What is renewable energy?
A structure built in the sea to slow down big waves before they reach the shore.
What is a breakwater?
The movement of water, which takes sand and debris, along the beach to a different location.
What is Longshore drift?
A narrow body of sand that extends into the sea.
What is a spit?
The two processes occur that continually change our coastal landscape.
What is Erosion and Deposition
A place where boats and ships can stop and tie up so they dont damage themselves or the coastline.
What are jetties and ports?
The type of erosion where air is forced into cracks in rocks by waves, causing them to break apart.
What is Hydraulic Action?
A coastal landform created when an arch collapses?
What is a stack?
A spit that connects two land areas, one being the mainland and the other being a small island or rocky outcrop.
What are tombolos?
Wooden fences built at right angles to the beach to stop sand from being carried away.
What are groynes?