COASTS

Question 1

Manage retreat

Answer 1

Costal management to allow the land to flood because theres no reason to save the land

Question 2

Groynes

Answer 2

Timber rock structures like fences on the beach going in the sea (hard engineering)

Question 3

Sea wall

Answer 3

Concrete barrier against the sea at the foot of Cliff (hard engineering)

Question 4

Gabions

Answer 4

wired cages with rocks to support a cliff (hard engineering)

Question 5

Beach norishment

Answer 5

Sand / shingle added or moved around on the beach to keep it level

Question 6

Dune regeneration

Answer 6

Sand dunes to bring water up the cliff so it doest smack up into it (soft engineering)

Question 7

Rock armour

Answer 7

Rock armour - piles of large rocks ? boulders along the the bottom of the cliff (hard engineering)

Question 8

Longshore drift

Answer 8

Segments being carried in the water coming up to the coast

Question 9

sliding

Answer 9

Large rocks slide down a cliff face as a landslide

Question 10

Abrasion

Answer 10

When rocks and other materials carried by the sea are picked up and thrown against the Cliff

Question 11

Hydraulic power

Answer 11

Waves smashing against rock

Question 12

Destructive waves

Answer 12

Strong backwash pulls sand and pebbles out to the sea ruining the beach.

Question 13

Rock falls

Answer 13

Fragments of rock break away from a Cliff face .

Question 14

Spit

Answer 14

long narrow beach made from sand or shingle that is joined to the mainland but stretches out into the sea.