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Year 11 Coasts Revision Guide

Coasts experience erosion through processes like hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, and solution. Longshore drift transports material along shorelines parallel to the coast due to the angle of incoming waves. During longshore drift, deposition occurs when material transported by waves and currents is dropped, with larger particles deposited closer to shore than finer sediments.

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Year 11 Coasts Revision Guide

Coasts experience erosion through processes like hydraulic action, abrasion, attrition, and solution. Longshore drift transports material along shorelines parallel to the coast due to the angle of incoming waves. During longshore drift, deposition occurs when material transported by waves and currents is dropped, with larger particles deposited closer to shore than finer sediments.

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Year 11 Revision: Coasts Processes

EROSION TRANSPORT DEPOSITION

Name and describe four ways in which Remember, waves approach a beach at an angle that What is deposition?
coasts erode: depends on the direction of the wind.

The water rushing up the beach is called the __________


1.
The water rushing down the beach is called __________
When will deposition occur?
The movement of water of material along the coastline is
called LONGSHORE DRIFT

Add labels to the diagram and below briefly state how this
2.
process works: (learn the diagram and what happens) Which material will be deposited first?

3.

4.

1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________
6. ___________________________________________

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