Chapter 5 - Costal Change And Conflict

Question 1

What is the difference between concordant and disconcordant coastlines

Answer 1

Concordant move with the coastline whereas disconcordant are at 90° to the coast

Question 2

What are the main costal landforms caused by erosion

Answer 2

Caves
Arches
Stacks 
Stumps
Headlands

Question 3

What are the features of a destructive wave

Answer 3

Weak swash, strong backwash

Question 4

What are the main types of costal erosion

Answer 4

Hydrolic action
Abrasion
Attrition
Solution

Question 5

what are the sub aerial processes (weathering)

Answer 5

mechanical
chemical
biological
mass movement

Question 6

what are the four ways sediment moves

Answer 6

longshore drift
transportation
deposition

Question 7

what is the affect of swash and backwash on sediment on a beach

Answer 7

swash pushes sediment in. backwash removes it

Question 8

how are cured beaches formed

Answer 8

waves bending or refracting when entering a bay

Question 9

what beach features does longshore drift causes

Answer 9

bars and spits

Question 10

what rocks are present at Holderness and what is the effect of them

Answer 10

Soft clay erodes leading to a receding coastline by around 2m a year

Question 11

what is done to prevent loosing costal settlements

Answer 11

hard engineering such as groynes

Question 12

what are the two engineering types with examples

Answer 12

HARD
sea wall
groynes

SOFT
beach replenishment
slope stabilisation