Dorset Coastline

Question 1

Location

Answer 1

Located on the southern coast of the UK.

Question 2

It is also called…

Answer 2

Jurassic Coast as it has a lot of fossils dating back to the Jurassic period.

Question 3

Swanage Bay

Answer 3

• made of clay(soft rock)
• long-shore drift affects the bay
• erosion is the most dominant process in the bay

Question 4

The Foreland

Answer 4

• in between the two bays(Studland and Swanage)
• made of chalk
• arch at the end collapsed forming stack Old Harry and a stump Old Harry’s Wife
• both are eroded by chemical weathering and biological weathering(vegetation)

Question 5

Durdledoor

Answer 5

• arch formed on a hard limestone headland

- parallel to a coastline

Question 6

Lulworth Cove

Answer 6

• cove formed when a gap was eroded in a limestone
• beind the limestone is a layer of clay
• the limesoten cliffs are vulnerable to mass movement

Question 7

Chesil Beach

Answer 7

• is a bar
• connects Isle of Portland to the mainland
• created by longshore drift
• behind the Chesil Beach, is lagoon called The Fleet Lagoon