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What does the size of a wave depend on

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The wind and the fetch

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Explain swash

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The frothy water that rushes onto the shore after a wave breaks

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Explain backwash

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The water that runs back out to sea from the shore

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Give the characteristics of a destructive wave

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They have a lot of energy and have a strong backwash and weak swash. They erode the coastline

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Give the characteristics of a constructive wave

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They have a strong swash and a weak back wash. It deposits material and builds up the coastline.

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Explain hydraulic action

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The force of the water hitting the coastline causing it to erode

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Explain air compression

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The waves trap air in the cracks of rocks and as the waves retreat the trapped air expands and can crack the rock.

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Explain abrasion

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Eosin caused by the small rocks carried by the sea hitting against the coastline.

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Explain attrition

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Erosion caused by small rocks hitting each other and breaking themselves into smaller pieces.

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Explain how a cliff is formed

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The waves cut a notch in the rock creating an overhang. The notch then gets deeper and the overhang collapses leaving a wave cut platform. This continues and the coastline retreats inland.
Ex. Cliffs of moher. Co. Clare.

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Explain how a bays and headlands are formed

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A bay is a wide opening in the coastline and a headland is a pice of land jutting out to sea.
Soft rock erodes quickly and hard rock erodes slowly. A bay is formed when soft rock is eroded in between two pieces of hard rock and the headlands are the hard rock.,

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Give and example of a bay and headland

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Dublin bay and howth head

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What is a sea cave and how is it formed

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This is a tunnel at the base of a cliff but it doesn’t cut right through the cliff/headland.
The waves erode a weak point into the rock called a cave

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Explain what and how a sea arch is formed

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A sea arch is a passage that runs completely through a headland. T his can happen when a cave is eroded further or two caves meet in the middle to form a complete passage through a headland called a sea arch

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Explain what and how a sea stack is formed

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A sea stack is a pillar of rock standing I. The water near the coast.
When sea arches erode further a sea stack is formed. The roof of the arch collapse forming a pillar of rock isolated from the land.

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16
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When a sea stack is eroded what is left

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A sea stump

17
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What is a blowhole

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A passage from a cave up to the surface of a cliff top

18
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Explain how a blowhole is formed

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Compressed air is trapped in the cave by strong waves
The pressure loosens the joints I. The rock above the cliff and eventually this falls into the cliff creating a passage known as a blowhole.

19
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Give an example of a blowhole

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The two pistols. Co. Donegal

20
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What’s a rivers load and the seas load

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River: sand, silt, clay
Sea: sand, pebbles, stones, and mud.

21
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What two ways do waves transport material in The sea

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  1. Up and down the shore. Swash and backwash

2. Long shore drift

22
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Explain long shore drift

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The movement of materials along the beach. The swash comes up the beach at an angle and the backwash comes back at another angle so the load is moved in a zigzag pattern.

23
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Explain the fetch

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The length that a wave has to travel

24
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Explain a beach

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This is built up of sand and shingle deposited by waves between low and high tide levels. Fine material is found on the lower beach and caorse material is found at the upper beach

25
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Explain a storm beach

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A beach that was created in a storm when material is hurtled up past normal high tide level

26
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Give an example of a beach

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Grey stones co. Wicklow, tramore Co.Wateroford

27
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What are sand dunes and how they formed

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Sand dunes are hills of sand that pile up on the shore beyond high tide level. Light dry sand is blown inland until trapped by wall or vegetation

28
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Give an example of sand dunes

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Rosslare co. Wexford, inch co. Kerry

29
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Explain marram grass

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Defence mechanism stops coast from eroding, bonds the sand together

30
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What is a sand spit and explain how it is formed

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A ridge of sand or shingle that is connected to the land at one end and extends into a bay. Material is moved by long shore drift. Material is deposited faster than eroded

31
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Explain spit

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Change in direction of the coastline

32
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Give an example of a sand spit

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Portmarnock co. Dublin

33
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What is a lagoon and give examples

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A lake of water cut off from the sea by a bank of sand or sand bar.
Ex. Lough Gill (Kerry), our lady’s island (Wexford)

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What is a tombolo, how is it formed and give example.

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A ridge of sand or shingle that joins an island to the mainland.
It’s formed when a sand spit grows outwards towards the sea and island and by long shore drift material is deposited between the island and mainland.
Ex. Howth, sutton

35
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How do people try to control the destructive sea (three ways)

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Sea wall
Boulders
Groynes

36
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What are sea walls

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Walls made from concrete with a curved top to help deflect the waves back out to sea.

37
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What are boulders. In the context of the sea

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Large rocks placed at the base of cliffs or I front of sand dunes to prevent erosion by reducing the waves power.

38
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What are groynes

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Lows wooden walls built at a right angle to the shore to help prevent sand from moving by long shore drift.

39
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Explain a beach that you have studied.

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It has:
Beach
Sea stack
Cliffs
Headlands
Bay
Sand spit
Lagoon
Sand dunes

Caravan sites, camp sites
Forts and castles.

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