Natural Processes
What is the main natural force in creating waves?
Wind
What are the four cardinal points of direction?
North, East, South and West
What coastal Landform is depicted in Image A?
Dunes
What is the main argument against seawalls?
They cost a large amount of money to build and maintain
What is the coastal zone?
The interface (the area of land) between the land and the ocean.
What natural process involves the wearing away of the land by the sea. It often involves destructive waves wearing away the coast
Erosion
What BOLTSS stands for?
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Source, Scale
What coastal Landform is depicted in Image B?
Cave
What coastal management is depicted in Image F?
Groynes
What is longshore drift?
The transportation of sediments parallel along the shoreline through by the current
What are the characteristics of a destructive wave?
Weak swash, strong backwash. The strong backwash removes sediments from the beach; hence being called destructive.
What SPICESS stand for?
Space, Place, Interconnections, Change, Environment, Sustainability, Scale
What coastal Landform is depicted in Image C?
Headland
What coastal management is depicted in Image G?
Rock Armor
What is the term for the deepening or widening of a river or harbour?
Dredging
Which process consists of the transportation of sediments along a coast parallel to the shoreline through the movements of waves?
Longshore drift
What ICZM stands for?
Integrated Costal Zone Management
What coastal Landform is depicted in Image D?
Arch
Name two coastal erosion solutions
Sea Walls, Rock Armors, Beach nourishment, Groynes, Sand bagging, etc.
Approximately, there are over _________ beaches in Australia
10,000
What is deposition?
The process of moving sediments from one location to another. Primarily through the natural forces of waves and wind.
What is the name of the lines that run parallel around the globe?
Latitude
What coastal Landform is depicted in Image E?
Stack
What are three ways a beach can be re-profiled? (at least 1)
- Planting of vegetation
- Fencing off damaged areas
- Sand being transferred from one part of a beach to another
How many mangroves are there in Australia?
59