Geography coasts

How does coastal erosion affect humans

• It can cause tsunami’s

• It can cause hurricanes

• It causes tornados to happen

• It causes sea levels to rise

How many coastal Erosion types are there

• 4

• 2

• 1

What controls tides

• The gravitational pull of the moon and the sun makes the water in the oceans bulge

• wind

• its natural and it moves by itself

What can slow down coastal erosion

• hard And soft engineering and build barriers

• makes holes for water to go in so it can’t hit the cliffs

What transports material across a beach

• swash

• people

• Backwash

• Wind

What is backwash

• Waves receding back to the ocean from the beach

• Waves washing the beach

• Waves crashing against The land

What is deposition

• Materials being transported by a river

• I don’t know

• Where sediments of soil and rock are added to landform or mass

Can wave cut platforms erosion slow down

• Yes after a while when rocks fall down in the ocean which are bigger

• No

• no Because sea levels rise

What’s the first part of coastal erosion

• Wave’s attack the base of the cliff

• wind pushes rocks into the ocean and that starts the process

• Waves attack the base of the cliff

• Earthquakes starts it

What are destructive waves

• they are tsunamis

• Large and powerful waves witch erode the coast or beach

• They hurt people