AQA Geography A Coasts

What affects the formation of a wave?

Why do waves break?

Diagram of waves breaking

Characteristics of constructive waves

Characteristics of destructive waves

What are the 3 kinds of weathering?

What are the kinds of mass movement?

What happens in Rockfall?

What happens in a Landslide?

What happens in a Mudflow?

What happens in a Rotational Slip?

Types of erosion at the coast

Corrasion

Hydraulic power

Abrasion

Attrition

Solution

Types of Transportation

Traction

Saltation

Suspension

Solution

Longshore drift

Where does deposition occur?

Formation of headland and bays

Diagram for formation of headlands and bays

Formation of a wave-cut notch

Formation of a wave-cut platform

Diagram of cliff collapse (including mass movement, wave-cut notches and wave-cut platforms)

Formation of a stump

Formation of a stump diagram

Beaches

Formation of a spit

Diagram of the formation of a spit

Formation of a bar

Rising Sea Levels

Rising Sea Levels

Norfolk

Rising Sea Levels

Happisburgh

Rising Sea Levels

East Anglia

Rising Sea Levels

Thames Barrier

Barton-on-Sea Hampshire

Location and Issue

Barton-on-Sea Hampshire

Natural causes

Barton-on-Sea Hampshire

Human causes

Shoreline management plan

Sea Wall

Description and cost

Sea Wall

Advantages and disadvantages

Groynes

Description and cost

Groynes

Advantages and Disadvantages

Rock Armour

Description and Cost

Rock Armour

Advantages and disadvantages

Beach Nourishment

Description and cost

Beach Nourishment

Advantages and Disadvantages

Dune Regeneration

Description and cost

Dune Regeneration

Advantages and disadvantages

Marsh Creation

Description and cost

March Creation

Advantages and disadvantages

Managed retreat

Minehead

Location and Issue

Minehead

Main features

Salt Marsh

Vegetation succession diagram

Keyhaven, Hampshire

Species

Keyhaven, Hampshire

Issues

Keyhaven Hampshire

Solutions