Land forms and landscape systems - their distinctive features and distribution

Question 1

What are the 2 types of energy environments?

Answer 1

High energy and low energy

Question 2

What are the features of a high-energy coastal environment?

Answer 2

They are erosive, rocky coastlines.

Question 3

What processes affect high-energy coastlines

Answer 3

Physical, chemical and biological weathering
Mass movement’s e.g rock falls
Transportation processes moving materials from or along the coastline

Question 4

What type of coastal landforms are formed at high-energy environments?

Answer 4

Cliffs and wave-cut platforms

Question 5

What is the dominant process of a low-energy coastal environment? What does this create?

Answer 5

Deposition is the dominant process and it creates sandy coastlines.

Question 6

What features are formed at low-energy coastal environments?

Answer 6

Sand dunes, spits and bars

Question 7

What type of coastlines are Estuarine coastlines?

Answer 7

Low-energy

Question 8

What feature can be found on an Estuarine coastline?

Answer 8

Mudflats

Question 9

What is deposition

Answer 9

Deposition is the process where material being transported by a river is deposited. Deposition occurs when a river loses energy.