Landscapes and Landforms
What is a Landscape?
A part of Earth's Surface
What is a beach made of and what type of coastal landform is it?
Depositional landform
Made of sand, sediment and small rocks.
Define Erosion
The wearing away of land
What is coastal management
Ways to protect the coast from damage such as erosion or deposition
What is swash?
Water that moves up the beach
Mountain , Coastal, Karst, Riverine,
City
What is a Headland and what type of Coastal landform is it?
Erosional Landform
It is land that sticks out into the sea.
What kind of wave causes erosion?
Destructive Waves
What is hard engineering coastal management strategies?
Building hard structures to stop erosion
What is Backwash?
Water going back out to sea
What is a landform
A natural shape on the land within landscapes
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.
Name two things involved in the process of erosion
Wind and waves
Give me an example of a hard engineering strategy
Seawall
Groyne
Breakwater
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.
What kind of landscape is good for farming
River or riverine landscapes
What is a spit and what type of Coastal Landform is it?
Depositional Landform
A long, narrow strip of land.
How does the sand get pulled away out to sea?
Strong backwash
What is soft engineering coastal management strategy?
Using nature to protect the coast
What wave builds up beaches?
Constructive Waves
What is a karst landscape and name one real-world example
A landscape with caves and sinkholes.
Yanchep
Margaret River
What is a tombolo and what coastal landform is it?
Depositonal
Sand that joins an island to land.
What happens when waves bend around land?
They hit the sides and wear them away, eroding the land away.
Give me TWO examples of soft engineering Strategies
Dune restoration
Beach Nourishment
Longshore drift removes sand from a beach without replacing it, what will eventually happen to the beach?
The beach gets smaller