A Level Edexcel Coasts

Eustatic Change is...

• sea level itself rises or falls

• land rises or falls relative to the sea

• expansion of sea water

• submerged coast

Isostatic Change is...

• sea level itself rises or falls

• land rises or falls relative to the sea

• expansion of sea water

• submerged coast

Thermal Expansion is...

• sea level itself rises or falls

• land rises or falls relative to the sea

• expansion of sea water

• submerged coast

which is the below is mass movement

• freeze thaw

• salt weathering

• wetting and drying

• slumping

which is the below is mass movement

• freeze thaw

• salt weathering

• rock falls

• wetting and drying

which is the below is mass movement

• Chemical

• solifluction

• Biological

• wetting and drying

which is the below is weathering

• freeze thaw

• earth flow

• rock falls

• soil creep

What is a sediment Cell

• A system of environmental change

• A system with sources, transfers and sinks

• A system with a sediment budget

• A system with fresh and salt water

• A system with erosion and deposition

A sediment Cell system attempts to...

• create positive feedback

• create a sediment budget

• create dynamic equilibrium

• create negative feedback

In plant succession the first plants are called

• invaders

• colonisers

• creeping species

• pioneer species