The cards Question What is a coastline? Tap to flip Answer The boundary between the land and the sea or ocean. Question What is a cliff? Tap to flip Answer A tall, vertical rock face. Question What is a beach made of stones called? Tap to flip Answer Shingle. Question What are waves? Tap to flip Answer The movement of energy across water. Question What causes waves? Tap to flip Answer The wind blowing across the sea. Question What causes tides? Tap to flip Answer The Moon's and Sun's gravity pulling on Earth's oceans, making sea level rise and fall regularly. Question What is the fetch? Tap to flip Answer The stretch of open water over which the wind blows; it affects the size and energy of waves. Question Which type of wave has a powerful swash and a weaker backwash? Tap to flip Answer A constructive wave. Question Which type of wave has a powerful backwash and a weaker swash? Tap to flip Answer A destructive wave. Question What is swash? Tap to flip Answer When a wave rushes up the beach. Question What is backwash? Tap to flip Answer When the water from a wave retreats back into the sea. Question What are the four types of coastal erosion? Tap to flip Answer Abrasion, hydraulic action, attrition and solution. Question What are the four types of transportation? Tap to flip Answer Traction, solution, suspension and saltation. Question When does deposition occur? Tap to flip Answer When waves have lost their energy and can no longer carry their load. Question What is deposition? Tap to flip Answer When material such as sand, mud or rocks is dropped by the water that was carrying it. Question What is a landform? Tap to flip Answer A natural feature created by processes such as erosion or deposition. Question What is the sequence of erosional landforms from a headland to a stump? Tap to flip Answer Headland, cave, arch, stack, stump. Question Does geologically soft rock, such as clay, feel soft to touch? Tap to flip Answer No. All rock feels solid; soft rock just crumbles and breaks more easily than hard rock such as granite. Question What is longshore drift? Tap to flip Answer The lateral movement of sediment across a beach through swash and backwash. Question Name three depositional landforms created by longshore drift. Tap to flip Answer Spits, bars and tombolos. Question What is a spit? Tap to flip Answer A long, narrow ridge of sand or shingle that projects from a coastline into the sea. Question What may form behind a spit, because it is a low energy zone? Tap to flip Answer A salt marsh. Question What is sea level? Tap to flip Answer The average height reached by the sea or an ocean, measured between high tide and low tide. Question Which coast of England is eroding quickly as rising sea levels speed up erosion? Tap to flip Answer The east coast. Question What is a geographic information system (GIS)? Tap to flip Answer A computer mapping system that captures and displays geographic data to help understand spatial patterns. Question Give one human and one physical factor that influence coastal erosion. Tap to flip Answer Human: whether coastal defences have been installed. Physical: the rock type. Question What is hard engineering? Tap to flip Answer Building fixed structures to slow down the waves and the rate of erosion. Question Name three examples of hard engineering. Tap to flip Answer Groynes, sea walls and gabions. Question What is soft engineering? Tap to flip Answer Working with nature to reduce the risk of flooding and erosion. Question Name two examples of soft engineering. Tap to flip Answer Beach replenishment and dune stabilisation. Question Do coastal defences stop erosion completely? Tap to flip Answer No. They can greatly reduce erosion but cannot stop it completely, and they do not last forever. Question In England and Wales, who implements Shoreline Management Plans? Tap to flip Answer Local councils, working with the government. Question What is a stakeholder? Tap to flip Answer A person who has an interest in a given resource. Question What is an island nation? Tap to flip Answer A country that does not share any land borders with other countries. Question In which ocean is the island nation of Tuvalu? Tap to flip Answer The Pacific Ocean. Question What is an atoll? Tap to flip Answer A ring-shaped coral reef with a body of water in the middle. Question What is the body of water in the middle of an atoll called? Tap to flip Answer A lagoon. Question What is subsistence farming? Tap to flip Answer Farming to feed yourself and your family, not for profit. Question Why does Tuvalu experience drought and water scarcity? Tap to flip Answer It lacks natural freshwater. Question What is elevation? Tap to flip Answer The height of a geographical feature or location above mean sea level. Question Why can building coastal defences be challenging for small island nations? Tap to flip Answer Because of their low elevation. Question What is a displaced person? Tap to flip Answer Someone forced to move by something outside their control, such as flooding. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit Coasts: what shapes life at the coast? England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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