Changing Coastlines Technical Language

What is a river catchment?

• An area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills

• Piled broken stones used as a foundation or to stabilize an easily eroded bank or slope

• a barrier built out into the sea to protect a coast or harbour from the force of waves.

• a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life, control erosion or improve surfing

• a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline, over the beach and into the water, to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.

What is a rock wall?

• An area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills

• Piled broken stones used as a foundation or to stabilize an easily eroded bank or slope

• a barrier built out into the sea to protect a coast or harbour from the force of waves.

• a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life, control erosion or improve surfing

• a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline, over the beach and into the water, to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.

What is an artificial reef?

• An area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills

• Piled broken stones used as a foundation or to stabilize an easily eroded bank or slope

• a barrier built out into the sea to protect a coast or harbour from the force of waves.

• a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life, control erosion or improve surfing

• a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline, over the beach and into the water, to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.

What is a groyne?

• An area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills

• Piled broken stones used as a foundation or to stabilize an easily eroded bank or slope

• a barrier built out into the sea to protect a coast or harbour from the force of waves.

• a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life, control erosion or improve surfing

• a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline, over the beach and into the water, to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.

What is a breakwater?

• An area of land where water collects when it rains, often bounded by hills

• Piled broken stones used as a foundation or to stabilize an easily eroded bank or slope

• a barrier built out into the sea to protect a coast or harbour from the force of waves.

• a human-created underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life, control erosion or improve surfing

• a shore protection structure built perpendicular to the shoreline, over the beach and into the water, to reduce longshore drift and trap sediments.

What is soft engineering and which of the following are examples of soft engineering?

• coastal management strategies that use the natural processes of the coast

• beach nourishment

• managed retreat

• coastal management strategies that involve building structures that aim to control the beach's natural processes

• rock walls

What is hard engineering and which of the following are examples of hard engineering?

• coastal management strategies that use the natural processes of the coast

• beach nourishment

• groynes

• coastal management strategies that involve building structures that aim to control the beach's natural processes

• rock walls