General Coasts

Question 1

What management technique stops longshore drift from happening?

Answer 1

groynes

Question 2

What management technique is made of concrete and reflects wave energy back into the sea?

Answer 2

sea wall

Question 3

what is soft engineering/management?

Answer 3

the use of natural resoruces and working with nature

Question 4

What type of management process is expensive and difficult to maintain?

Answer 4

sea wall

Question 5

Which of these is NOT a depositional landform?
beach, bar, arch

Answer 5

arch

Question 6

What management technique increases tourist potential at a bigger beach?

Answer 6

beach replenishment and groynes

Question 7

What is a hold the line policy?

Answer 7

Use hard engineering to defend the coastline

Question 8

What is the name of the smallest dunes? which are the closest to the sea

Answer 8

embroyo dunes

Question 9

What is the name of the grass found in sand dunes?

Answer 9

marram grass

Question 10

What is a key feature of a dune slack?

Answer 10

It is filled with a water pond

Question 11

What adds nutrients to the soil, making it more fertile in sand dunes?

Answer 11

decomposing vegetation

Question 12

What is the UK coastline case study?

Answer 12

Dorset Coast (Lulworth Cove-Swanage Bay)

Question 13

What is the coastal management scheme case study?

Answer 13

Bournemouth and Barton

Question 14

What is the landform of the deposition case study?

Answer 14

dawlish warren spit

Question 15

Where is the Dorset coastline?

Answer 15

south west of england

Question 16

What is a feature of the Dorset coast?

Answer 16

Lulworth cove

Question 17

What is unique about the Dorset coast?

Answer 17

The area has alternating hard and soft rock, which causes the creation of bays and headlands (due to erosion)

Question 18

What erosional processes caused the widening and deepening of the Whealen beds?

Answer 18

hydraulic action
abrasion
solution

Question 19

where is bournemouth?

Answer 19

on the Dorset coast

Question 20

2 reasons to protect Bournemouth

Answer 20

100 businesses at risk of tourism worth £472.8 million per year

Question 21

What is an issue for Barton?

Answer 21

Due to the groyens in Bournemouth, there has been a loss of material on the beach of Barton

Question 22

What are the defences at Bournemouth?

Answer 22

new 17-year plan made in 2015
Replaced 53 groynes from 1913
scheme costed £50 million