Kent coastline year 7

The process where the power of the wave smashes against the cliff. Air becomes trapped in the cracks in the rock and causes the rock to break apart. What type of erosion is this?

• hydraulic action

• abrasion

• attrition

• solution

When the sea water dissolves certain types of rocks. In the UK, chalk and limestone cliffs are prone to this type of erosion. What type of erosion is this?

• hydraulic action

• attrition

• abrasion

• solution

When the rocks that the sea is carrying knock against each other. They break apart to become smaller and more rounded. What type of erosion is this?

• hydraulic action

• attrition

• abrasion

• solution

When pebble grind along a rock platform much like sandpaper. Overtime the rock becomes smooth. What type of erosion is this?

• hydraulic action

• abrasion

• attrition

• solution

Where is Whitstable?

• North Kent

• East Kent

• South Kent

• West Kent

What is hydraulic power?

• The power of the waves compressing air into the cracks in the rock causing the rock to break apart.

• When water freezes inside the cracks in the rock causing the rock to expand and break apart.

• When rock fragments carried by the sea knock against one another causing them to become smaller and more rounded.

• When rock fragments carried by the sea knock against one another causing them to become smaller and more rounded.

Which of these statements are correct?

• Attrition is when rock fragments carried by the sea knock against one another causing them to become smaller and more rounded.

• Attrition is the power of the waves compressing air into the cracks in the rock causing the rock to break apart.

• Attrition is when water freezes inside the cracks in the rock causing the rock to expand and break apart.

• Attrition is a deposition process.

Which of these statements are correct?

• Fetch is the movement of swash and backwash

• Fetch is when waves roll back into the sea

• Fetch is when waves roll up the beach

• )Fetch is the distance the wave travels

What is longshore drift?

• When sediment moves along the beach.

• When waves move up the beach.

• When waves roll back into the sea.

• The movement of the sea.

What is a concordant coastline?

• When sediment moves along the beach.

• Different rock types

• One type of rock along the coastline.

• The most common wind direction.