Coastal Landforms

Starter

What coastal landforms do these images show?

Activities


Cliffs - Beachy Head, South Coast, England.	Wave Cut Platforms - Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, England.	Sea Caves - Sea Caves on the coast of Anglesey

Arches - Green Bridge of Wales, Pembroke, Wales.	Stacks - Old Man of Hoy, Scotland.	Bays - Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, South Wales.

Headlands - Scarborough, Yorkshire, England .	Beaches - Oxwich to Tor Bay, Gower, South Wales.	Spits - Spurn Head, East Yorkshire, England.

Bars - West-central coast of Florida, USA.	Sand Dunes - Oxwich Dunes, Gower, South Wales.	Salt Marsh - Humber Estuary, behind Spurn Head, East Yorkshire, England.

Task

Produce a revision wiki page detailing the formation of one of the following landforms:

Your wiki page should include the following:

How erosion and/or deposition processes produce the landform.
Maps and diagrams of the process of formation.
Examples of the landform(s) with at least two images/maps.
Links to the sources of information, images and maps.

Your target audience are fellow GCSE/IGCSE students.

Once you have produced your wiki page you will be asked to review one produced by one of your peers. You should proof read it - changing any spelling and punctuation as necessary. You should also try and contribute something extra to the wiki page you are reviewing - an additional example, a relevant clip from YouTube or Google Video or some additional explanation.

Exam Style Question

You should answer the following exam question, by hand. You shouldn't chose the natural feature that you produced a wiki page for, or the one of the wiki page you reviewed.

Explain how the natural feature of Cliffs or Wave Cut Platforms or Sea Caves or Arches or Stacks or Bays or Headlands or Beaches or Spits or Bars or Salt Marshes are formed as a result of wave action. You may use (a.k.a. should use ) labelled diagrams in your answer. [7 Marks]