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Coastal erosion Blockbuster

Questions

1. What A is where pebbles rub against each other and they break and become smoother?
2. What WN is sometimes found at the base of an undercut cliff?
3. What DW removes beach material?
4. What HC is an area in the northeast of England which has experienced considerable
erosion in the past?
5. What S is the remains of an arch after it has collapsed?
6. What WP remains after a cliff has retreated?
7. What H is an area of land which juts into the sea?
8. What B is an area of less resistant rocks which is eroded away?
9. What HP is the force of the waves crashing into a cliff, trapping air?
10. What S is a wave surging up the beach?
11. What S is where rocks containing calcium carbonate are slowly dissolved?
12. What CW have a frequency of approximately six to nine per minute?
13. What A is where pebbles grind down a cliff surface like sandpaper?
14. What G is a method of coastal defence?
15. What MR is where the sea is allowed to erode and flood the land?

Answers

1. Attrition
2. Wave-cut notch
3. Destructive waves
4. Holderness coastline
5. Stack
6. Wave-cut platform
7. Headland
8. Bay
9. Hydraulic pressure
10. Swash
11. Solution
12. Constructive waves
13. Abrasion
14. Groynes or gabions
15. Managed retreat

Coastal erosion in Denmark


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