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6. What is a slipping plane?

  • A dangerous, slippery cliff edge
  • a line of weakness often where a previous landslide has occured
  • soft rock in a cliff
  • a physical feature that has been shaped by erosion or weathering
  • A cliff where landslides happen a lot

7. Swash is the movement of water down a beach

  • False
  • True

8. A beach is an accumulation of sand and shingle.

  • True
  • False

9. What is marine erosion?

  • the wearing away of rocks by the action of the sea
  • Breaking down of rocks by the action of the weather
  • chemicals from the sea causing erosion