Processes
Actions
Landforms
Change & Management
Geographical Skills
100
What is the process that wears away rocks and beaches?
Erosion
100
What common action results when wind blows across water?
Waves
100
What common landform is a result of gentle wave action laying down sand?
Beach
100

The main disadvantage of a sea wall

Creates strong backwash, causing erosion beneath the wall

100

Lines that run parallel around the globe are known as

Latitude

200

The physical and chemical disintegration of rocks and minerals

Weathering

200

Characteristics of a destructive wave

Weak swash, strong backwash

200

The name of a sand spit or sand bar that connects two land areas

Tombolo

200
What do we call the movement of water back into the sea after a wave washes up?
Backwash
200

How many digits are used for a Area Reference (AR)

4
300

What is the process that lays new material down, new sand on a beach for example?

Deposition

300
What force can carry sand along the beach?
Currents
300

These are formed when wind blows sand inland from the beach.

Dunes

300
What holds sand together and prevents erosion?
Vegetation
300
What connects areas of equal height above sea level on a map?
Contour lines
400
What three spheres interact to produce coastal landforms?
Lithosphere, Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
400

The name for the current that carries sand along the beach

Longshore drift

400
What two processes occur that continually change beaches?
Erosion and Deposition
400

The term used to describe deepening or widening a river or harbour

Dredging

400

What is the bearing of the direction north?

0 Degrees

500

What process involves erosion, transportation, and deposition of sediment by the wind. 

Aeolian 

500
What force can move lots of water but usually have little effect on coastal landforms?
Tides
500

Formed where weak rocks are eroded on each side of a headland as a result of wave refraction.

Caves

500

What is the name of the layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken 

Swash

500

A topographic map is best used to show

Landforms

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