Why is understanding the prevailing wind along a coast important in protecting coastal environments?
Allows us to manage coastlines e.g. groynes (wind controls LSD, therefore groyne placement).
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Which 2 'spheres' interact through passing energy leading to wave formation?
The atmosphere and hydrosphere
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Why is wave refraction important on a local scale?
1) It affects the angle the waves break
2) This affects the energy distribution along the coastline
3) generates long shore currents and longshore drift
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What is the definition of a current?
The general flow of water in one direction
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The type of current created in the surf zone by breaking waves
near shore
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What are long shore currents?
Currents driven by waves entering the surf zone with their crests aligned to the angle of the shoreline.
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The amount of sediment transported by longshore currents is known as the
littoral drift
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is the UK's prevailing wind direction?
Back
Southwest
Card 3
Front
What is the definition of fetch
Back
Card 4
Front
Why is understanding the prevailing wind along a coast important in protecting coastal environments?
Back
Card 5
Front
Which 2 'spheres' interact through passing energy leading to wave formation?
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