Coasts Flashcards
What management technique stops Longshore drifts from happening?
Groynes
What management technique is made of concrete ad reflects wave energy bak into the sea?
Sea wall
What is soft engineering/management?
The use of natural resource and working with nature
What is a type of management process is expensive and difficult to maintain?
Sea wall
Which of these is NOT a depostional landform? -beach, bar, arch
Arch
What management technique increases tourist potential be bigger beach?
Beach replenishment and groynes
What is a hold the line policy?
Use hard engineering to defend the coastline
What is the name of the smallest dunes? Which are the closest to the sea
Embryo dunes
What is the name of the grass found in sand dunes?
Marram grass
What is a key feature of a dune slack?
It is filled with water-a pond
What adds nutrients to the soil, making it more fertile in sand dunes?
Decomposing vegetation
what is the UK coastline case study?
Dorset coast (Lulworth cove-Swanage bay)
what is the coastal management scheme case study?
Bournemouth and Barton
what is the landform of deposition case study?
Dawlish warren spit
where is the Dorset coastline?
south west of england
what is a feature of the Dorset coast?
lulworth cove
what is unique about the Dorset coast?
the area has alternating hard and soft rock, which causes the creation of bays and headlands (due to erosion)
what erosional processes caused the widening and deepening of the whealden beds?
hydraulic action
abrasion
solution
where is Bournemouth?
on the Dorset coast
2 reasons to protect Bournemouth
100 businesses at risk
tourism worth £472.8 million per year
what is a issue for Barton?
due to the groynes in Bournemouth, there has been a loss of material on the beach of Barton
what are the defences at Bournemouth?
new 17 year plan made in 2015
replaced 53 groynes from 1913
scheme costed £50 million
