COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS

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COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS

• REVISION HINTS

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QUESTIONS

• AS Questions are short answer questions.
• Each section is worth between 2 and 5 marks.
• 2 mark sections will include definitions of terms
  and simple recall.
• Other questions will involve the use of
  appropriate diagrams, graphs, photos etc.
• Make sure that you include named and located
  examples wherever possible.

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Processes and Features

• Waves formation and energy, refraction, fetch
• Erosion processes features what affects the
  rate of erosion on the coastline wave energy,
  differential erosion, geology, discordant and
  concordant coasts, sequence of erosion on a
  headland named and located examples of all
  features in specification

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Processes and Features

• Deposition processes features sediment
  budget, named and located examples of all
  relevant features
• Transportation processes features littoral
  drift, evidence of movement

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COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS

• Psammosere sand dune ecosystems embryo dune,
  yellow dune, grey dune, dune slack
• Halosere slob zone, low marsh, high marsh,
  zonation, succession, flocculation of clay,
  pioneer species
• Human use of coastal environments effect on
  processes features
• Mention your fieldwork experience of these 2
  environments.

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SEA LEVEL CHANGE

• Evidence features from various locations,
  including UK
• Isostatic mechanisms of change loading
• Eustatic mechanisms of change
• Coasts of transgression and regression, Flandrian
  transgression

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HUMAN USE OF COASTLINES

• Management issues coastal defence various
  measures of coastal erosion, soft and hard
  engineering
• CHECK THE SPECIFICATION
• READ THE TEXTBOOK ( more.)
• GO TO EDEXCEL WEBSITE Spec A