Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Geography
- Destructive Waves
- Taking material
away from a
beach
- Constructive Waves
- Builds up a
beach
- Swash
- Movement
of a wave
up a beach
- Fetch
- The
distance
that a wave
has moved
- Abrasion
- Sea uses sand
or pebbles to
erode cliffs
- Corrosion
- Chemicals
in
seawater
wear
away
cliffs
- Hydraulic
Action
- Water
replacing
air in cliffs
- Traction
- Rolling of Large
boulders along seabed
- Saltation
- Material being
bounced along
the seabed
- Suspention
- Small
particles
carried in
water
- Solution
- Chemicals carried
in water, invisible
- Spit
- A bank of
shingle or sand
washed alone
the coastline by
long shore drift
- Tombolo
- A bar of shingle or sand
that joins an island to the
mainland
- Lagoon/Saltmarsh
- An area behind a spit
where there is slack
water
- Sand Dunes
- Wind blown sands
- Hard Engineering
- Sea Walls,
concrete groins,
gabions,
igneous rock
armour etc
- Soft Engineering
- Sand replenishment,
shingle, curved sea
wall e.g. Marine
Parade
- Managed Retreat
- "Do nothing"
approach,
allow sea to
flood areas etc
- Percelation
- Water sinks
into soil and
rock
- Evaporation
- Water taken up into the
atmosphere
- Transpiration
- Water taken
up into
atmosphere
directly from
surface of
vegetation
- Peak Discharge
- River is carrying max water
- Lag time
- Number of
hours between
heaviest rain
and peak
discharge
- Rising/Falling Limb
- Period during
river is
rising/falling