Geography 4.4

Question 1

How dose costal management affect coastlines down drift?

Answer 1

Coastal management is there for a number of reasons. To build up beaches and to protect peoples land. For example Groyns can be used to trap sediment and build up the beach.

Question 2

How dose dredging affect the coastline?

Answer 2

Dredging: excavating sand and shingle from the sea bed; this can contribute to coastal erosion.

Question 3

How dose industry affect the coastline?

Answer 3

Coastal and estuarine ecosystems have been, and still are, heavily influenced by the human species through pollution and habitat loss throughout the world.

Question 4

How dose development (jobs/houses/buildings) impact on the coastline?

Answer 4

People who live close to the coastline could open shops bringing tourist to the beach and lettering it. Also, land could be eroded away because its near a coastline and property could be lost

Question 5

How is Swanage coastline being affected by physical processes (geology, discordant, headlands/bays, erosion/deposition)?

Answer 5

Today, Swanage has 1.8km of coastal defence works, mainly concrete or stone sea walls and timber groynes. The sea wall and groynes to the south of the bay were put in place in the late nineteenth century. Further coastal defence works were added in the 1920s

Question 6

How is Swanage coastline being affected by human processes (management, industry, tourism, transport etc)?

Answer 6

It is getting crowded and can destroy the beach