Landscapes formed by water

the wearing away and removal of soil and rock by natural elements, such as wind and water, and by human activity

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion

• flood damage

the laying down of material carried by rivers, wind, ice and ocean currents or waves

• weathering

• deposition

• erosion

• flood damage

an interconnected community of plants, animals and other organisms that depend on each other and on the non-living things in their environment

• ecosystem

• eco world

• erosion

• estuary

destructive wave

• a large powerful storm wave that has a strong backwash

• the laying down of material carried by rivers, wind, ice and ocean currents or waves

• a sudden downhill movement of material, especially snow and ice

• water that seeps into soil and gaps in rocks

the main direction from which the wind blows

• perennial

• peninsula

• moraine

• prevailing wind

the movement of water in a wave as it breaks onto a beach

• watershed

• swash

• river delta

• prevailing wind

describes a stream that does not always flow

• moraine

• structures built by people

• intermittent

• downstream

nearer the mouth of a river, or going in the same direction as the current

• deposition

• downstream

• destructive

• barge

avalanche

• a sudden downhill movement of material, especially snow and ice

• the movement of water from a broken wave as it runs down a beach returning to the ocean

• the laying down of material carried by rivers, wind, ice and ocean currents or waves

• a large powerful storm wave that has a strong backwash

a coastal management technique that involves using physical structures to control the effects of natural processes

• physical process

• hard engineering

• human features

• field sketch