Geography Coasts Flash Cards

1. What is the trough of the wave?
2. What is the crest of the wave?
3. What is the wave height?
4. What is the wave length?

How are waves formed?
What does this have to do with wind?

What is the fetch of a wave?

1. What is swash?
2. What is backwash?

What are constructive waves?

What are destructive waves?

What is coastal erosion?

What are the four types of erosion?

What is corrosion?

What is Hydraulic Action?

What is Abrasion?

What is attrition?

How are bays and headlands formed?

What is weathering?

What are the three types of weathering

What is mass-movement?

What is a wave cut notch?

What is a wave cut platform?

What is Long shore drift?

What are the depositional landforms?

How is a bar formed?

How is a lagoon formed?

How is a spit formed? pt.1

How is a spit formed? pt 2

How is a spit formed? pt 3

How is a spit formed? pt 4

How are salt marshes formed?

How are Tombolos formed?

What are Sand Dunes?

What are the five stages/types of sand dunes?

What are halophytes?

What are the threats to salt marshes?

Where can you find salt marshes?

What do salt marshes help to do?

Where are coral reefs found?

How is coral formed?

What is coral bleaching?

What are the three types of coral reefs?

What is a fringing reef?

What is a barrier reef?

What is an atoll reef?

What are the conditions for coral reefs to grow?

What do coral reefs need for growth and why?

What is good about mangrove swamps?

Where do mangroves form?

CASE STUDY HOLDERNESS COAST
Where is the Holderness Coast?

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What are the cliffs a Mappleton made out of?

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Between 1970 and 2000, how many houses have been lost into the sea?

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How far has the cliff face retreated since the roman times?
How many meters per year does the sea erode?

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Why is this a problem for the people living on the Holderness coast?

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What has the council done to improve the situation?

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What problems have these coastal defences caused?

What are three types of hard engineering?

What are two types of soft engineering?

What is a sea wall?

What are some disadvantages of Sea walls?

What are gabions?

What are the disadvantages of gabions?

What are groynes?

What are the disadvantages of groynes?

What is beach nourishment?

What is the disadvantage of beach nourishment?

What is a managed retreat?

What are the disadvantages of managed retreats?

What is the definition of coastal erosion?

What is slumping?

What is hard engineering?

What is soft engineering?

What are the opportunities of living by a coastline?

What are the conditions for a tropical storm to form?

What are three other names for tropical storms?

What is the first stage of forming a hurricane?

What is the second stage of forming a hurricane?

What is the third stage of forming a hurricane?

What is the fourth stage of forming a hurricane?

What is the fifth stage of forming a hurricane?

What is the sixth stage of forming a hurricane?

CASE STUDY HURRICANE KATRINA
When did Hurricane Katrina hit?

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Where did Hurricane Katrina hit?

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What happened when FEMA there was going to be a hurricane?

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What was the poverty rate in New Orleans?

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What did the red cross do to help people choosing to stay?

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What did FEMA do?

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What were some of the characteristics of New Orleans?

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What were some of the characteristics of New Orleans? pt.2

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What did the senator do a few days before the storm?

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What happened to the people who couldn't afford or couldn't reach the busses?

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When the storm hit how fast were the winds?

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How much of New Orleans was flooded?

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What contributed to the flooding on New Orleans?

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What was some of the effects of Hurricane Katrina?

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What happened while they were in the Superdome?

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How were they rescued?

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Hurricane Katrina is often referred to as what and why?

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How many deaths did Hurricane Katrina cause?
How many people were missing?

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What happened as a result of the flooding?