Coastal erosion

What part of the UK coastline is this?

Aim: To understand the four types of erosion and give an
example of how they affect the coastline/

Learning outcomes:
(D/C) To explain in detail the four types of erosion.
(B) To sequence the formation of a sea stack.
(A/A*) To be able to infer/link erosion processes to the
formation of a sea stack
 What is the definition of
Coastal Erosion?

Every word is used once apart from of which is used twice.

 What is the definition of Coastal
Erosion?

Coastal erosion is the wearing away of land, or the removal

of beach, by wave action.
 The four main types of coastal
erosion.
Mix & Match
When waves pick up sand, pebbles rock and boulders and
throw them at the cliff. These work like sand paper or
wrecking balls.
Waves force
air and Attrition
Abrasion water into
cracks.
Sea water dissolves soluble Hydraulic
material from the cliff. action

Rocks and boulders already eroded at the

corrosion bottom of the cliff are knocked together
and are worn down into smaller pieces.
 How does erosion shape the coastline?

We are going to look at 2 iconic landforms on the coast line. Wave

cut platforms and cave, arches and stacks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone
/clips/wave-cut-platforms-and-headland-erosion/4021.html
 Landform Diagrams!

I would like you to draw a series of annotated diagrams that tell

the sequence of how a Sea stack is formed.

1. Put the title Landform diagram to show how a Sea stack is

formed.
2. Your diagram should include detailed annotations explaining
the formation.
3. Your diagrams and annotations must show how Abrasion,
Hydraulic action and Corrosion.
4. They must be neat, in pencil, done with a ruler etc.
 WAGOLL (what a good one should look like)

1 2

There are weakness in all types

of cliff, hydraulic action gets
into the crack and begins to..

3 4

After further erosion in the form 5

of H..A.., C. & A ..
The stack collapses and
becomes a stump
Produce a flow chart describing how a wave cu platform is
created.
Use page 90 as a reference, however it must be your on words not
copied from the book I will be checking!

Answer the following questions in full sentences:

1. Which type of erosion is predominant on the coastline and
why?
2. Explain the formation of headlands and bays.
3. How can we link weathering and erosion together.
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