1.1.3 Landforms and landscape systems, their distinctive features and distribution

Question 1

What is the coast constantly doing?

Answer 1

Changing, it is dynamic

Question 2

How long is the coastline around Britain?

Answer 2

5000km

Question 3

What is the coast a battleground between?

Answer 3

Land, sea, weather and climate, human activity

Question 4

How long is the fetch from the Brazil to south west coast of England?

Answer 4

10,000 km

Question 5

How are high energy coastlines characterised ?

Answer 5

Erosion, high wave activity, exposure to prevailing winds and a long fetch. landforms include headlands, cliffs and wave cut platforms

Question 6

How are low energy coastlines characterised ?

Answer 6

Gentle slopes with low wave energy, sandy beaches, tidal mudflats, marches and swamps, deposition, beaches and spits. Sandy or estuarine coastlines