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Physical Landscape EQ2 Flashcards

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What is an Arch?

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A rock formation created by erosion

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What is Backwash?

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The movement of water down the beach

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What is a Bay?

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A low lying inlet of land on the coast

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What is a Beach?

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A gentle slope of land bordering a large body of water that consists of materials such as sand, pebbles or rocks

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What is a Concordant coast?

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A coastline with the same type of rock along its length

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What is a Constructive wave?

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Waves which help build up material on the beach. They tend to have a low frequency and strong swash

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What is Deposition?

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When materials is deposited or left behind, e.g when a river loses it energy and is unable to carry its load any further, or waves move sand onto a beach but lack the energy to carry it away

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What is a Destructive wave?

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Waves which remove material from the beach,. The swash is weaker than the backwash

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What is a Discordant wave?

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A coastline with different bands of rock, causing headlands and bays

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What is Erosion?

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The wearing away of pieces of rock, soil or other solid materials

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What is Fetch?

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How far a wave has travelled

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What is a Hard rock coast?

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A coastline made of hard rock making it harder to erode

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What is a Headland?

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A high area of land that extends out into the sea

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What is Longshore drift?

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The movement of material along a coastline due to the angles approach of waves

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What is Mass movement?

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A large scale downward movement of rocks and material

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What is a Soft rock coast?

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A coastline made of soft rock making it easier to erode

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What is Spit?

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A stretch of beach at one end of a coastline caused by waves depositing material

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What is a Stack?

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A landform consisting of a steep and a vertical column of rock

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What is Swash?

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The water flowing towards a beach when a wave breaks

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What is a Stump?

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A stack which has collapsed only leaving the base

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What is Weathering

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The breaking down of rocks on site by the action of weather, plants, animals and chemical processes

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What is a Landslide?

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When the rocks on the side of a steep slope gives awat

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What is Rockfall?

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Rocks falling freely from a cliff face

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What is a Joint?

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A brittle fracture surface in rocks along which little or no displacement has occured

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What is a Fault?

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A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock

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What is a Cave?

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A natural opening in the earth

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What is a Cliff?

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A cliff is a mass of rock that rises very high and is almost like a vertical wall

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