Landscapes and Landforms
Coastal Landforms
Coastal Erosion
Coastal Management Strategies
Waves and Longshore drift
100

What is a Landscape?

A part of Earth's Surface

100

What is a beach made of and what type of coastal landform is it?

Depositional landform

Made of sand, sediment and small rocks.

100

Define Erosion

The wearing away of land


100

What is coastal management

Ways to protect the coast from damage such as erosion or deposition

100

What is swash?

Water that moves up the beach

200
Name one Natural and one human landscape

Mountain , Coastal, Karst, Riverine, 

City 

200

What is a Headland and what type of Coastal landform is it?

Erosional Landform

It is land that sticks out into the sea.

200

What kind of wave causes erosion?

Destructive Waves

200

What is hard engineering coastal management strategies?

Building hard structures to stop erosion

200

What is Backwash?

Water going back out to sea

300

What is a landform

A natural shape on the land within landscapes

300

How is a stack formed (TELL ME THE STEPS AND HOW)

Crack, Cave, Arch, Stack, Stump

Formed from the persistent wearing away of a cliff by wind and waves.

300

Name two things involved in the process of erosion

Wind and waves

300

Give me an example of a hard engineering strategy

Seawall

Groyne

Breakwater

300

Describe the process of longshore drift?


Longshore drift is the process where waves hit the shore at an angle, carrying sand and pebbles up the beach with the swash, and then pull them straight back down with the backwash, moving the material along the coast in a zigzag pattern.



400

What kind of landscape is good for farming 

River or riverine landscapes

400

What is a spit and what type of Coastal Landform is it?

Depositional Landform

A long, narrow strip of land.

400

How does the sand get pulled away out to sea?

Strong backwash


400

What is soft engineering coastal management strategy?

Using nature to protect the coast

400

What wave builds up beaches?

Constructive Waves

500

What is a karst landscape and name one real-world example

A landscape with caves and sinkholes.

Yanchep

Margaret River

500

What is a tombolo and what coastal landform is it?

Depositonal

Sand that joins an island to land.

500

What happens when waves bend around land?

They hit the sides and wear them away, eroding the land away.

500

Give me TWO examples of soft engineering Strategies

Dune restoration

Beach Nourishment

500

Longshore drift removes sand from a beach without replacing it, what will eventually happen to the beach?

The beach gets smaller