geography coasts

Question 1

coast

Answer 1

where the land meats the sea

Question 2

hydraulic action

Answer 2

the power of the waves as they smash into the cliff. trapped air is forced in the holes and cracks in the rock, causing them to break apart

Question 3

attrition

Answer 3

materials carried by the sea knock against one another causing them to become smaller and smoother

Question 4

abrasion

Answer 4

the waring away of cliffs or rocky platforms by rocks scraping along them

Question 5

wave cut platform

Answer 5

a rocky, level shelf at or around sea level representing the base of old, retreated cliffs

Question 6

deposition

Answer 6

when the waves lose energy it drops or deposits its material. the deposited material is called sediment

Question 7

beach

Answer 7

a zone of deposited material e.g. sand or pebbles

Question 8

transportation

Answer 8

the sea carries away the eroded material

Question 9

longshore drift

Answer 9

the transportation of sediment along a stretch of coastline caused by waves approaching the beach at an angle

Question 10

spit

Answer 10

a depositional landform when a finger of sediment extend from the shore out to sea