Erosional landforms Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

CIE International Geography A2 level (Advanced Physical Options - coastal environments). With these notes you'll have the necessary material to get an A+.

Explain some factors that create an erosional coastline (4 main factors) - Answer- - Rock hardness- softer and uncemented sediment and rock more vulnerable to cliff retreat e.g. boulder clay along Holderness -Geological orientation- Discordant coasts have different rates of erosion resulting in headlands + bays, e.g. Eastern Dorset coast of Isle of Purbeck Wave type- Destructive waves are stronger and therefore when water is driven into cracks in rocks it can compress air and cause blasts (Hy...

permafrost - Answer-forms when soil or rock temperatures remain below 32 degrees for at least 2 years glacier - Answer-large mass of perennial ice resting on land or floating shelflike in sea formed from accumulation and recrystillazation of snow snowline - Answer-where the lowest elevation where snow remains year arounf alpine glacier - Answer-glacier in a mountain range cirque - Answer-scooped-out, amphitheater-shaped basin at the head of an alpine glacier valley; an erosional landform ...

AQA A-level GEOGRAPHY 7037/1 Paper 1 Physical Geography Mark scheme 2023 Question 1: Which of the following landforms is formed by the process of abrasion? A) Arch B) Cave C) Stack D) Stump Answer 1: A) Arch Explanation: Abrasion is the process of rocks being carried by waves and thrown against the cliff face, wearing it away. This mainly creates erosional landforms. An arch is formed when a cave is eroded right through a headland. Abrasion widens and deepens the cave, event...

A level Geography Paper 1 - Coastal systems and landscapes (Questions and Answers A+ Graded 100% Verified) What is a system? ANSWER: A set of interrelated components working together towards some kind of process. What is an open system? ANSWER: Where matter and energy can be transferred from the system across and beyond the boundary into the surrounding environment. What is a closed system? ANSWER: These have transfers of energy both into and beyond the system boundary but not transfer o...

Geography (AQA GCSE) Latest Update Already Passed How are waves formed The wind blowing over the sea, friction with the surface of the water causes ripples to form and these develop into waves Constructive waves Low waves that surge up the beach, powerful swash weak backwash, deposit large amounts of material, crests far apart, gently sloping wave front Destructive waves Formed by local storms near the coast, powerful backwash, closely spaced, high and steep, weak swash, narrow the beach, stee...

In depth notes taken from OCR A Level Geography Textbook, Coastal Landscapes Chapter. Definitions of key terms, describing theories and detailed case studies which helps exams.

Describe how a reduction in energy may lead to sediment sorting. (6) - Sorting is the process by which the standard deviation of clast size within a sediment becomes reduced. - High energy environments (e.g. shallow marine) are able to transport a large range of sediment sizes by traction, saltation, and suspension. - When energy is reduced larger particles are deposited, but finer material continues to be transported, therefore continuing the sorting process. - Sorting may occur by LSD, on ...

The document includes notes on pretty much everything you will need to know on the Coasts topic for CIE geography. Complete with both summary notes and facts, examples and statistics needed for the highest possible marks on essay questions.

This resource is a full set of revision notes on the CCEA A2 topic of coasts. It includes subtopics such as coastal zone, swell, sea, fetch, how do waves break on the shore, constructive and destructive waves, beach morphology, wave refraction, tides, erosional processes, transport, longshore drift, coastal landforms, eustatic change, isostatic change, emergent and submergent landforms, threat of rising sea levels due to climate change, impacts e.g. Nile delta, case stuy on Kiribati, reasons for...