Coastal Process’s

Question 1

Erosion

Answer 1

Water rubbing or hitting rock and slowly destroying it ( hydraulic action , abrasion, attraction solution )

Question 2

Transportation

Answer 2

Longshoreman drift, traction, saltation, solution, suspension ( the movement of sediments being carried bounced etc by waves

Question 3

Deposition

Answer 3

The drop of sediments due to a waves losing its energy and dropping all its sediments

Question 4

Tides

Answer 4

High and low ( controlled by the moon)

Question 5

Weathering

Answer 5

Mechanical chemical biological, ways things are broken down or destroyed e.g chemical acid rain, biological animals borrowing

Question 6

Mass movement

Answer 6

Sliding slumping rockfalls they are all to do with massive parts of cliffs or rocks rolling or falling or slumping of a cliff

Question 7

Traction

Answer 7

The dragging or pulling of rocks against the sea bed

Question 8

Hydraulic action

Answer 8

The shade power of waves against the cliff side and forcing air bubbles in to cracks and crevices

Question 9

Solution

Answer 9

When rocks and sediments are desolves by sea water

Question 10

Saltation

Answer 10

Big rocks being bounced along the river bed or sea bed