Coasts
Mind map showing the different areas of study on coasts.
- Created by: Jai Walters
- Created on: 07-12-13 22:04
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- Coasts
- Weathering and erosion
- Mechanical weathering
- Freeze-thaw weathering
- Waves
- Destructive
- Backwash>swash
- High and steep
- High frequency
- Erosional processes
- Attrition
- Abrasion
- Solution
- Hydraulic power
- Destructive
- Chemical weathering
- Carbonation weathering
- Mechanical weathering
- Transportation and deposition
- Movement of material
- Traction
- Suspention
- Saltation
- Solutuion
- Longshore drift
- Prevailing wind
- Swash
- Backwash
- Movement of material
- Landforms caused by deposition
- Beaches
- Constructive waves
- Spits
- LSD
- Salt Marshes
- Keyhaven
- Bars
- Joins 2 headlands
- Lagoon
- Beaches
- Landforms on maps
- Stacks
- Little blobs in sea
- Cliffs
- Little black lines
- Wave-cut platforms
- Bumpy edges
- Beaches
- Sand
- Pale yellow
- Shingle
- White or yellow with speckles
- Sand
- Stacks
- Rising sea level, coastal flooding and erosion
- Sea level
- Global warming
- Melting ice
- Heating oceans
- Thermal expansion
- 2mm per year
- Global warming
- Flooding and erosion
- Impacts
- Economic
- Loss of tourism
- Damage repair
- Loss of agricultural land
- Social
- Deaths
- Water supplies
- Loss of housing
- Loss of jobs
- Environmental
- Ecosystems affected
- Loss of habitats
- Economic
- Impacts
- Sea level
- Coastal management
- Hard engineering
- Sea wall
- Rock armour
- Groynes
- Breakwaters
- Soft engineering
- Beach nourishment
- Dune regeneration
- Marsh creation
- Managed retreat
- Hard engineering
- Landforms caused by erosion
- Cliff retreat
- Headlands and bays
- Caves, arches, stacks and stumps
- Coves
- Weathering and erosion
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