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Year 6
Coastal erosion
I can understand how coastal erosion affects people’s lives.
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Year 6
Coastal erosion
I can understand how coastal erosion affects people’s lives.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- The coastline is eroded by the actions of the wind, waves and human activity.
- Erosion can create landforms such as caves, arches and sea stacks.
- Hard rock is eroded slowly and creates headlands, soft rock erodes quickly and creates bays.
- Maps can be used to identify headlands and bays formed by hard and soft rock.
Keywords
Waves - Waves are the movements of energy across water.
Erosion - Erosion is the process of Earth’s surface, e.g. rock or soil, being worn away and transported from its original site.
Geology - The geology of an area is its physical structure and what rocks and minerals exist there.
Common misconception
Children may believe that waves are cause by tides.
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon . Waves are caused by wind blowing over the sea.
To help children understand the importance of geology on coasts, you could provide some hard rocks, like granite, and softer rocks, like boulder clay, for children to feel and experiment with.
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Licence
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Starter quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
Which of these is a physical coastal feature?
pier
lighthouse
port
Q2.
Which of these is a human coastal feature?
estuary
spit
saltmarsh
Q3.
A place with ‘point’ or ‘head’ in its name will probably be a
Q4.
Which coastal feature is usually found in a deep water bay or estuary next to flat land?
pier
lighthouse
Q5.
Coastal land would be used for tourism when there is:
a deep water bay or estuary next to flat land
a large stretch of protected inland water with lots of sheltered, deep-water
Q6.
Bays can form natural that can be used as a safe place for fishing boats.
piers
lighthouses
Exit quiz
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6 Questions
Q1.
the movements of energy across water.
Erosion is
Geology is
Q2.
is the process of Earth’s surface, e.g. rock or soil, being worn away and transported from its original site.
Transportation
Deposition
Q3.
Waves are formed by
the gravitational pull of the moon
the movement of boats
Q4.
The size of the wave depends upon:
the distance from the equator
Q5.
Which two of these factors create large waves?
the temperature of the wind
the spin of Earth
Q6.
Erosion by waves can create features such as along a coastline.
caves and beaches
beaches and arches