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 - Lulworth Cove, South Coast, England.
Headlands - Worms Head, Gower, Wales
Beaches - Chesil Beach, South Coast, United Kingdom.
Spits - Spurn Head, East Yorkshire, England.
Bars - Chesil Beach, Dorset, UK.
Sand Dunes - North Gare Dunes, Teesmouth, UK.
Salt Marsh - New Jersey, USA.
Task
Produce a revision style resource detailing the formation of one of the following landforms:
Cliffs | Wave Cut Platforms | Sea Caves | Arches | Stacks | Bays | Headlands | Beaches |Spits and Bars | Salt Marshes
Your resource 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 MYP/GCSE/IGCSE students.
Review
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]