Geography AS Unit 2 Crowded Coasts CASE STUDIES

Question 1

Studland

Answer 1

Knoll beach
owned by national trust
popular = blowouts, destroying sand dunes e.g. transect
management = beach divided due to popularity
managed retreat + boardwalks
honey pot site = high tourism
popular = conflict = divided
35 mil each summer

Question 2

Southampton

Answer 2

estuary
sheltered from english channel = good
fawley oil refinery = metal pollution, warm water, oil spill 1989
salt marsh effected = birds

Question 3

Dibden bay

Answer 3

stakeholders - southampton city c + rspb
2001 proposed container port - make southampton more competitive
eco benefit - more money + jobs
disadvantages - pollutionm effects plants and animals, ugly environment, challenge other port

Question 4

Holderness

Answer 4

being affected for years
rock type clay, long shore drift
least effected = hamborough head (chalk)
withersea effected due to no defence

Question 5

Blackpool

Answer 5

booming
then fell due to cheap travelling
created new activity centre which worked but then stopped being used
hen parties next idea however this created ‘hen culture’ - stopped when all went abroad
business centre now

Question 6

Barton on sea

Answer 6

cliffs collapsing
timber groynes + timber revetments - replaced by rock
drainage system
erosion mainly due to inland water seepage

Question 7

High cliffe

Answer 7

southampton uni web
rock groynes
therefore less erosion on coastline
drainage system

Question 8

Naish farm

Answer 8

sssi site - allowed to erode
cheap land behind
fossils
no defences
clay - non permeable

Question 9

Abbotts farm

Answer 9

before 2002 protected from flooding through sea walls
2002 delibaretly breached
+ - cheaper, salt marsh
- - land lost

Question 10

Holderness management

Answer 10

1. Flamborough head - headland, northern point, chalk
2. Bridlington - sea wall + timber groyne
3. Hornsea - unconsolidated till, sea wall, groyne + gabion + reventment = all worked
4. Mappleton - unconsolidated till rock groynes + long reventment, £2mil - caused erosion further south
5. Skipsea - eroding, effected by Bridlington trapping material
6. Easington gas terminal - reventment