the regular rise and fall of sea levels caused by the Moon’s and Sun’s gravity pulling on Earth’s oceans

the distance over water that wind blows, which affects the size and energy of waves

Waves and tides

Geography

The UK's coastline

Processes shaping the coastline

Erosional coastal landforms

Depositional coastal landforms

Threats to the UK's coastline

GIS: Visualising and Analysing coastal erosion

Protecting the UK's coastline

Coastal management

Tuvalu: An island nation

The impacts of climate change on Tuvalu

The future of global coasts

This unit teaches pupils how physical and human processes shape our coastline. Pupils will also learn about the threats and challenges coastlines face in a warming world.

Coasts: what shapes life at the coast?

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The distance a wave travels is called the ...

seawater moving up a beach towards the land

seawater moving down a beach towards the sea

a strong swash and weaker backwash to build up the beach

a strong backwash and weaker swash to erode the beach

What is the force by which a planet, or other large body, draws objects to its centre?

Which kind of weather will make the largest waves?

Put the definition of high and low tides in the right order.

Waves can travel long distances, this is called the fetch. The greater the fetch, the __________ the wave will be.

when waves lose their energy and drop the sediment they were carrying

Starter Quiz

What is the force by which a planet, or other large body, draws objects to its centre?