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A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY COASTS

Coastline correct answers The where the land meets the sea Fetch * correct answers The distance over which the wind can blow What does a large fetch cause? correct answers powerful waves What does a small fetch cause? correct answers less powerful waves Prevailing wind correct answers The direction the usual wind comes from What is the prevailing wind in the UK? correct answers In the UK, the prevailing wind is southwesterly, the wind blows, uninterrupted from central America acro...

A LEVEL GEOGRAPHY COASTS questions and answers

AQA GCSE Geography: Coasts Questions and Answers Graded A How do different waves form? Wind blowing over the sea. Friction with water surface causes ripples that develop into waves. The longer the fetch the more powerful the wave. What is the fetch? The distance the wind blows across the water What is the swash? The wave breaks onto the beach and moves up it What is the backwash? Water rolling back from the beach due to gravity What is a prevailing wind? A wind coming from the predominant di...

EDEXCEL geography coasts topic + exam style questions & answers 2023/2024 what are sediment littoral cells - ANSWER-'self contained' stretches of coastline made up of three components; sources where sediment is generated, transfer zones stretches where sediment moves along the coast, and sinks where sediment is deposited describe the essential features of backshore (3) - ANSWER-a part of the beach above normal high tide mark, at cliff base. only effected by the sea during exceptionally h...

WAVE CREST This is the top of the wave as water in a wave rises causes crest WAVE TROUGH As water in a wave falls WAVE HEIGHT Distance between the wave crest and trough WAVE PERIOD Time between waves WAVE FREQUENCY Number of waves that break on a beach in a given period of time WAVE STEEPNESS WAVE HEIGHT/WAVE LENGTH cannot exceed 1:7(this is the point at which the wave breaks) WAVE ENERGY In deep water the energy of a wave is proportional to the wave length X by the wave height(sq...

Coasts (AQA Geography A Level) with complete solution

A* standard AQA Geography handwritten detailed notes on coasts (paper 1), covering the whole specification. I used these to revise and achieved an A* in 2022.

Coasts (AQA Geography A Level) with complete solution