Definitions
The process of wearing away and transporting soil, rock, or other materials
What is erosion?
A process that transfers sand from where it accumulates to where erosion is occuring.
What is Sand Pumping?
Waves that have a strong swash and a weak backwash
What are Constructive waves?
A high, steep face of rock, earth, or ice, often found at the edge of the sea or in mountains
What are Cliffs?
The dynamic region where the land meets the sea, shaped by natural processes like waves, wind, and tides
What are Coastal landscapes?
The vertical distance above sea level
What is Altitude?
What are Training walls?
Waves that have a weak swash and a strong backwash
What are Destructive waves?
Large natural elevations of the earth's surface, typically with steep sides and a peak, that rises prominently above its surroundings
What are mountains?
A desert landscape is an arid area defined by low precipitation, often with extreme weather conditions and low amounts of animal and plant life.
What are desert landscapes?
Solid material, from bits of rocks, plants, and animals, that is transported by wind, water, or ice and deposited in a new location
What is Sediment?
What are Groynes?
A series of powerful ocean waves caused by large-scale disturbances like undersea earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides
What are Tsunamis?
A rocky point of land that extends out into a body of water, often high with a vertical drop.
What are Headlands?
Areas shaped by the flow of water, including the bodies of water, its floodplains, and associated ecosystems.
What are Riverine/River landscapes?
The process of laying down sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea, or ice.
What is Deposition?
The process of excavating material from the bottom of a body of water, such as a harbour, river, or lake, to deepen, clean, or reshape it
What is Dredging?
The zigzag movement of sediment, such as sand and pebbles, along a coastline due to waves arriving at an angle
What is Longshore drift?
long, narrow depressions on the seafloor that form at the boundary of tectonic plates where one plate is pushed beneath another.
What is a Trench?
Natural, elevated regions formed by the movement of tectonic plates, often featuring peaks, ridges, and steep slopes
What are mountain landscapes?
A supercontinent that existed approximately 335 to 175 million years ago, and contained almost all of Earth's landmasses
What is Pangaea?
Man-made structures placed underwater to reduce the energy of destructive waves.
What are Artificial reefs.
An area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds
What are Rain shadows?
The landform built up by the material ejected from a vent opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt.
What is a Volcano?
Environments that have been significantly altered by human activity, reflecting human settlement, culture, and needs.
What are Built landscapes?