- Understand the importance of coastal areas.
- Apply existing knowledge related to erosional processes (Year 7: Rivers and Flooding) to marine erosion processes.
- Describe the appearance and formation of erosional and depositional coastal landforms: cliffs, arches, stacks, beaches and spits.
- Describe the process of longshore drift as a coastal transportation process.
- Describe various coastal management methods - sea walls, groynes, revetments; rip rap and beach nourishment.
- Evaluate the need for coastal management strategies at various sites and understand the conflicts that such projects may cause.
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- resources, settlement, habitat, weathering, erosion, physical, chemical, biological, freeze-thaw, exfoliation, fluvial, arch, stump, bay, deposition, transportation, longshore drift, sediment, spit, conflict.
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