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What are the 4 types of coastal erosion?

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Hydraulic action
Abrasion
Attrition
Solution

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What is hydraulic action?

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Hydraulic action is when the water hammers against the rock and water is forced into the cracks, breaking down the rock

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What is Attrition?

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Attrition is when rock are flung into each other, wearing each other away and making them rounded like pebbles.

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What is abrasion?

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When pebbles get flung against the rock, scraping and scouring it away.

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What is solution?

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When the water dissolves some materials.

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What are the 3 coastal processes?

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Erosion
Transportation
Deposition

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What is erosion?

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The wearing away of the coast

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What is transportation?

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The movement of material

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What is deposition?

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The dumping of material

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What is longshore drift?

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Longshore drift is when materials are moved along a beach by the waves moving at an angle in a swash and moving back at a 90° angle in a backwash therefore moving along the beach

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What are the purpose of groynes?

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Groynes are there to stop materials and things like boats from washing away. Their placement leads to starvation and accumulation.

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What is starvation and accumulation?

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Starvation accumulation is when longshore drift builds up materials on one side of the groyne ‘accumulating’ leaving the other side with nothing ‘starving’

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What are the 6 types of erosional landforms?

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Headlands
Bays 
Caves
Arches
Stacks 
Stumps
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What is a headland?

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A piece of land jutting out into the sea

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What is a bay?

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A broad coastal inlet often with the beach

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How are caves formed?

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Continue to corrasion will widen and deepen a wave cut notch into a cave.

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How are stumps formed?

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The base of the stack will be continually attacked by the sea over time it may become unstable it will collapse and form a stump

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How are arches formed?

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Went to caves are formed either side of the headland over time they may erode backwards and meet for an arch

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How are stacks formed?

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Continued erosion of the base of an arch will make it unstable the roof will collapse into the sea forming a stack

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How are headlands and bays formed?

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When the sea erodes the coast and some rock is stronger than the other the sea will wear away the soft rock (like sand or mud) forming a bay,leaving a headland made of sturdier rock (like chalk)

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