CHAPTER 3- Landforms and landscapes, their features and distribution

Question 1

whats a rocky coast

Answer 1

an erosive coast

Question 2

rocky coastline type of system

Answer 2

dynamic

Question 3

rocky coast erosion is accomplished by what which are split into 3 categories

Answer 3

mass movement, rock breakdown processes and marine rock removal processes

Question 4

all types of mass movement are what

Answer 4

episodic and occur more commonly in winter

Question 5

what a rock breakdown process

Answer 5

physical, chemical and biological processes that weaken and loosen rock material making it avaliable for removal by marine processes

Question 6

whats rock removal processes

Answer 6

wave actions

Question 7

what do low energy coastlines produce

Answer 7

depositional coasts w sandy beaches often backed by sand dunes, w accompanying depositional features

Question 8

low energy coastlines can be what

Answer 8

macro or micro tidal

Question 9

low emergy coastlines are prevalent but what…

Answer 9

theyre frequently interspread by dramatic storm events which upset dynamic equilibrium and lead to changes in beach and bar methology

Question 10

eroisonal landforms examples

Answer 10

cliffs, shore platforms and wave cut notches

Question 11

depositional landforms incl

Answer 11

sandy and shingle beaches, sand dunes, spits, bars, lagoons, tombolos and cuspate forelands

Question 12

examples of low energy coastlines

Answer 12

widespread, interspersed w rocky shorelines

stretches of lowland low enegry coastlines occur along German Baltic coast, Netherlands, most of southern and eastern USA and lagos coast of Nigeria

Question 13

example of high energy coastlines irl

Answer 13

Southern Gower in Wales

Question 14

high energy