Name 1 type of mechanical weathering
Freeze thaw
Which type of weathering causes rock to dissolve overtime.
Chemical
Which type of mass movement causes saturated soil to slump.
Slumping
Define swash
The movement of a wave up the beach
Define backwash
The movement of a wave back to sea
Which type of wave has a low wave height and creates a gently sloping beach.
Constructive
Name the 4 stages of erosion in order
Hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, solution.
The movement of sediment along a coastline is know as ......?
Longshore drift
Which type of erosion acts link sandpaper as a rock grinds against the cliff face.
abrasion
Which depositional landform is created by longshore drift?
Spit
What determines the direction of longshore drift?
Prevailing wind
What happens to the material that is transported when wave energy slows down.
Deposition
Define the term erosion
The wearing away of material
A coastline made of layers of hard and soft rock at right angles to the coastline is know as what?
Discordant coastline
Describe a headland
Land sticking out to sea
