End of year 9 exam 2

Question 1

what is Erosion

Answer 1

The wearing away of the land by movement.

Question 2

what is Attrition

Answer 2

erosion as sediments collide and become smaller and more rounded.

Question 2

what is Abrasion

Answer 2

erosion through the scraping away of rocks as material carried by the waves
crash in to the land.

Question 2

what is Hydraulic Action

Answer 2

erosion through the breakdown of rock through the sheer impact force of
waves.

Question 3

what is Solution

Answer 3

erosion as material is dissolved by the water at the coastline.

Question 3

what is Fetch

Answer 3

the distance wind has traveled over open water to create waves.

Question 4

what is Longshore Drift

Answer 4

the movement of sediment along a coast.

Question 5

what is swash

Answer 5

the movement of water up a beach with the breaking of a wave.

Question 6

what is backwash

Answer 6

the movement of water down a beach to the sea after having run up the beach in the swash.

Question 7

what is Hard engineering and give an example

Answer 7

solutions to problems of resource management involving building of
structures e.g. sea walls.

Question 8

what is soft engineering and give an example

Answer 8

solutions to problems of resource management involving working with
nature.