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Wave height

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Distance between the wave trough and crest

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Wave crest

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Highest point of a wave

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Wave period

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Time taken for the wave motion from trough to trough OR crest to crest (usually 1-20 seconds)

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Wave amplitude

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Distance between the still water depth level and wave crest

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Wave base

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An are of no movement which occurs at a depth of half the wavelength

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Wave trough

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The lower point in a wave

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Wavelength

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Distance between two successive crests

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Wave orbit

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The circular motion that water particles make

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Still water depth

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Is measured from the sea bed

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Wave frequency

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No of wave per minute

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Wave steepness

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Ratio of the wave hight to wavelength (wav height divided by wavelength)
No higher than 1:7 as this is when a wave breaks

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Swash

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Mass of foaming water that translates energy up the beach when a wave had broken

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Backwash

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Return of water down the beach as a result if gravitation pull

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Fetch

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The distance over which the wind can blow

The distance a wave travels

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What effects wave energy?

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Wind velocity (speed)
Duration (time which wind blew)
Fetch (distance over which wind blew)

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Wave

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Created by the action of wind on the surface of the sea

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Coast

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Transitional zone between the land and the sea

This zone is not fixed and is often described as dynamic as it is subject to change

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What are the two types of wave

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Waves debrief from local wings (sea)

Waves created by distance storms (swell) which may travel thousands of miles

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How are waves formed

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Created by the frictional drag of the wind

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Define mass movement

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Movement of rock fragments and soil under the influence of gravity

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What is the slowest form of mass movement

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Soil creep

Less than 1cm per year
Almost continuous process

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What are the 3 main causes of soil creep

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Raindrop impact

Wet-dry periods

Freeze-thaw

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Name all types of mass movement

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Soil creep
Solifluction 
Earth flows
Mud flows
Slides and slumps  
Rockfall
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Succession

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Gradual change in plant species/communities over time

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Primary succession

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Succession is allowed to occur unhindered and progress from bare soil right through to climatic climax vegetation

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Secondary succession

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succession is interrupted

Can either by natural or human induced

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Climatic climax vegatation

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The end of the succession succession

Vegetation is in equilibrium with climate of an area

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Sub climax succession

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Occurs when a natural event (flood) prevents climatic climax vegetation being reached

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Plagio climax vegetation

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Occurs when humans interrupt the succession sequence

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Pioneer species

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First plants to colonise an area. Characteristics include high growth rate, small size, wide dispersal and fast population growth

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Climax communities

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End of the succession sequence.

Characterised by slower growth rates, larger size, lower rates if dispersal, lower rates of colonisation, longer lives

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What happens as you move inland sand dunes

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Exposed sand decreases
Rise in humus content,more vegetation
Reduced salt in water - more freshwater
PH moves from alkaline to acid due to less saltwater and increase in humus
Increase in species diversity as conditions become less harsh

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Salt marsh

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Intertidal and depositional landform
Area of low lying land that is frequently flooded with saltwater

Occur in sheltered river estuaries or behind spits

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Sea level change

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Eustatic: amount of water in sea changes - global
Isostatic: when land rises or falls and creates a relative change in base level - local/smaller scale

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Emergent landforms

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Raised beaches - former wave cut beaches now raised above current sea levels
Coastal plains/ marine platforms - large flat areas which are formed sea beds/floors exposed above sea levels

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Submergence landforms

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Rias - drowned river valleys
Damnation coasts - flooded river valleys that run parallel to the coast
Fjords - flooded glacial u valleys
Fjards - flooded glacial lowlands ( V shaped)
Estuaries - flooded valleys of large, broad rivers - mouth of a river

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Features associated with beaches

Depositional

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Cusps - crescent shaped features that form in beaches where there is a junction of sand and shingle
Berms - ridge coarse sand and shingle on upper beach deposited by spring tides and storm waves
Storm beach - noticeable semi permanent ridge bound at level of highest spring tides
Ridges and runnels - features at low water characterised by a series if raised areas and depressions that run parallel to shoreline

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