Landforms & Landscapes
Natural Disasters
Coastal Landscape Features
Coastal Management Strategies
100
A landscape that contains mountains and is usually formed along tectonic boundries
What is a Mountian Landscape?
100
What is a Landslide?
100
A narrow strip of sand attached on one end to the mainland and nothing on the other end.
Spit
100
The biggest threat to our coastlines
What is Beach Erosion?
200
A landscape that contains a river
what is a riverine landscape?
200
Where 80 % of the planet's earthquakes and volcaneos occur
What is the ring of fire?
200
a mound of sand that is formed by the wind, usually along the beach or in a desert.
What is a dune?
200
What are two positives about sand dredging?
It is a quick solution
It restores the beach to its natural appearance to attract tourists
300
A landscape that is characterised by its lack of rain. No more than 250mm of rain per year
What is a desert landscape?
300
The name that is given to magma once it has reached the earths surface
What is Lava?
300
The two types of waves that create coastal landscapes
What are constructive and destructive waves?
300
What is Sand Dredging?
The process of taking sand from offshore and pumping it where it is needed.
400
Landscape where most people ski and snowboard
Alpine
400
What type of landform and event is the movie San Andreas about?
fault line and earthquake
400
Geomorphic processes with the acronym of W.E.D
What is Weather, Erosion, and Deposition?
400
Structures, typically made of wood or concrete, are built perpendicular to the shoreline to trap sand and prevent its longshore drift.
What are groynes?
500
This mountain is located in Nepal
Where is Mt Everest located?
500
What country gets a lot of earthquakes because they sit on 4 tectonic plates?
Japan
500
What changes/forms coastal landscapes?
Waves, wind, and human activity
500
What is longer lasting, sand dredging or groynes?
groynes