Coastal Landscapes in the UK Flashcards
What word describes the movement of a wave up a beach?
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Swash
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What word describes the movement of a wave up a beach?
What is hard engineering?
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Hard engineering involves building artificial structures which try to control natural processes.
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What is hard engineering?
Beaches are made higher and wider by importing sand and shingle to an area affected by longshore drift.
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Beach nourishment
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Beaches are made higher and wider by importing sand and shingle to an area affected by longshore drift.
Which type of mass movement involves saturated soil and weak rock flows down a slope, typically where cliffs are made up of boulder clay?
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Mudslide / mudflow
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Which type of mass movement involves saturated soil and weak rock flows down a slope, typically where cliffs are made up of boulder clay?
What is mechanical weathering?
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Mechanical weathering is the breakdown of rock without changing its chemical structure (composition).
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What is mechanical weathering?
