Coastal Environments

Coastal Environment
Division of zones

Costal Environments 2
What are some types?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments
Waves
How?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 2
Tides and Sea Level Changes
What are tides?
How does it happen?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 2
Tides and Sea Level Changes 2
How do tides affect the coast?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 2
Tides and Sea Level Changes 3
How do sea level changes affect the coast?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 3
Currents
What is it?
What causes it?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 3
Currents 2
How does it affect the shape of the coast?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 3
Currents 3
How does it affect the climate?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 4
Geology
What is it?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 4
Geology 2
How do rock composition relate to erosion?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 4
Geology 3
How does rock composition affect the coastline?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 5
Types of Ecosystems
What is an ecosystem?
How do they affect coastal environments?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 5
Types of Ecosystems 2
What are coral reefs?
How do they do what they do?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 5
Types of Ecosystems 3
What can mangroves do?

Factors Affecting Coastal Environments 6
Human Activities
How do they affect the coasts?

Generating Waves
How do they develop?

Generating Waves 2
Wave Terminology

Generating Waves 3
Factors Affecting Wave Energy
Wind Speed

Generating Waves 3
Factors Affecting Wave Energy 2
Duration of Wind

Generating Waves 3
Factors Affecting Wave Energy 3
Duration of Wind

Generating Waves 3
Factors Affecting Wave Energy 4\
How to tell a large wave?

Generating Waves 4
Waves in the Open Ocean
What are its characteristics?

Generating Waves 4
Waves in the Open Ocean 2
How do water particles move?

Generating Waves 5
Waves Close to the Coastline
Stage 1

Generating Waves 5
Waves Close to the Coastline
Stage 2

Generating Waves 5
Waves Close to the Coastline
Stage 3

Generating Waves 5
Waves Close to the Coastline
Stage 4

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas
Waves on the Beach
Swash and Backwash

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 2
Types of Waves
Constructive Waves

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 2
Types of Waves
Constructive Waves 2

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 2
Types of Waves 2
Destructive Waves

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 2
Types of Waves 2
Destructive Waves 2

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 3
Wave Refraction
What is it?
What is the result of it?

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 3
Wave Refraction 2
What happens when waves approach a coast?
What are the impacts of wave refraction?

Waves Affecting Coastal Areas 3
Wave Refraction 3
Diagram

Coastal Processes
Coastal Erosion
Hydraulic Action

Coastal Processes
Coastal Erosion 2
Abrasion/Corrasion

Coastal Processes
Coastal Erosion 3
Attrition

Coastal Processes
Coastal Erosion 4
Solution/Corrosion

Coastal Processes
Coastal Erosion 5
Diagram

Coastal Processes 2
Sediment Transport
What processes cause this?

Coastal Processes 2
Sediment Transport 2
How does beach drift form?

Coastal Processes 2
Sediment Transport 3
How do longshore currents form?
What is it?

Coastal Processes 2
Sediment Transport 4
What is longshore drift?

Coastal Processes 2
Sediment Transport 5
Diagram

Coastal Processes 3
Sediment Deposition
How does it happen?

Coastal Processes 3
Sediment Deposition 2
What factors affect the deposition of sediments?

Cliffed Coasts
Cliffs and Shore Platforms
What is a cliff?
How is it produced?

Cliffed Coasts
Cliffs and Shore Platforms 2
Diagram

Cliffed Coasts
Cliffs and Shore Platforms 3
How does a notch form?
How does a cave form?
How does a cliff form?

Cliffed Coasts
Cliffs and Shore Platforms 4
How does a shore platform form?
What is it?

Cliffed Coasts 2
Headlands and Bays
Type of Coastlines
How are bays formed?

Cliffed Coasts 2
Headlands and Bays 2
What type of coast is formed?
How are headlands formed?

Cliffed Coasts 2
Headlands and Bays 3
Diagram

Cliffed Coasts 3
Caves, Arches and Stacks
How does a cave form?

Cliffed Coasts 3
Caves, Arches and Stacks 2
How does an arch form?

Cliffed Coasts 3
Caves, Arches and Stacks 3
How does a stack form?
How does a stump form?

Depositional Coasts
Beaches
What is a beach?
What is it made up of?

Depositional Coasts
Beaches 2
Composition and Size of Materials

Depositional Coasts
Beaches 3
What determines the slope of the beach?

Depositional Coasts
Beaches 4
What changes the beach?

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos
What is a spit?

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos 2
How is a spit formed?

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos 3
How does a hook or curve form?

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos 4
How is a tombolo formed?

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos 4
Diagram of Spit Formation

Depositional Coasts 2
Spits and Tombolos 5
Diagram of Tombolo Formation