Edexcel A Geography Coastal Processes

What does the term Fetch refer to?

• The shape of a headland

• The distance a wave travels before it reaches land

• The movement of sediment within an ecosystem

• The time it takes for erosion to occur

What is this type of wave?

• Constructive wave

• Destructive wave

With a ................................... wave, the backwash is stronger than the swash.

• destructive

• constructive

• swash

• backwash

The movement of water up the beach after the breaking of a wave is...

• Swash
• Backwash

When swash is stronger than backwash it creates a

• Constructive wave
• Destructive wave
• Water layer weathering
• Plunging wave

I happen when the waves don't have enough energy to carry sediment

• Deposition
• Erosion
• Swash
• Backwash

A high energy environment causes __________ to occur?

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Gravity

• Sand Dunes

The type of erosion that occurs when pebbles bang together

• Abrasion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action
• Solution

Erosion happens faster when water interacts with...

• Hard Rocks eg. Igneous and Metamorphic Rock

• Soft Rocks eg. Sedimentary Rocks

• At the same rate on both hard and soft rocks

Corrosion occurs when?

• Little rocks get picked up by the waves and smashed on to the cliffs

• Small rocks are smashed against each other, making smaller rocks.

• Chemicals in the sea water dissolve the rocks

• At low tide when animals enter the coastal environment.