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2. What was built in 1996 to increase the height of the spit to stop the sea breaching the marsh?

  • Nothing
  • Offshore tire reefs
  • Rock armor and beach nourishment
  • Sea Wall

3. What do pioneer colonising plants (eel grass) do?

  • Bring other plants to a habitat
  • Help trap sediment which starts to build up a salt marsh
  • Discover new land

4. Where does it lie?

  • After groynes on the beach
  • Between a sea wall built in 1990s
  • On the west coast

5. What did the spit provide?

  • A sheltered place for sediment accumulation away from strong winds and coastal erosion
  • Place for erosion to take place
  • Place for scientists to study
  • Place for people to stay

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