coast case study

Question 1

example of a wave cut platform

Answer 1

Kimmeridge bay

Question 2

example of a cave-arch stack stump

Answer 2

old harrys rocks

Question 3

example of a recurved spit

Answer 3

sandbanks, J coast

Question 4

example of a double spit

Answer 4

poole harbour

Question 5

example of a bar

Answer 5

chesil beach, J coast
or slapton sands

Question 6

example of a tombolo

Answer 6

isle of portland, j coast

Question 7

example of a cuspate foreland

Answer 7

dungeness, kent

Question 8

example of rotational slumping and what is it?

Answer 8

Holderness coatline
Permeable rock sits on top of impermeable rock. Water infiltrates into the permeable rock adding to the weight. Weathering weakens the cliff and the cliff eventually colapses.

Question 9

example of a raised beach and fossil cliffs

Answer 9

isle of arran

Question 10

example of a ria

Answer 10

Plymouth sound

Question 11

example of a fjord

Answer 11

1190 in southwestern norway

Question 12

After the construction of the Aswan dam the volume of sediment fell from what to what?

Answer 12

130 million to 15 million tonnes

Question 13

After the construction of the Aswan dam erosion rates jumped from what to what?

Answer 13

25 m/yr to 200 m/yr

Question 14

what percentage of egypts population live along the nile delta?

Answer 14

95%

Question 15

how much fertile land will be lost by the end of the century? (aswan dam)

Answer 15

2 million hectares

Question 16

how many people will be displaced by the end of the century? (aswan dam)

Answer 16

6 million people