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Y10 Coastal Landforms

Designing your own revision guide!

The Specification states that you need to know:

"Landforms resulting from erosion - characteristics and formation of headlands and bays, cliffs and wave cut platforms, caves, arches and stacks [and stumps]."

...and...

"Landforms resulting from deposition - characteristics and formation of beaches, spits and bars."

What do I have to do?

Your task is to create a revision guide which describes, illustrates and explains the formation of each of the features listed above.

You should split your revision guide into two clear sections - "Landforms of Erosion" and "Landforms of Deposition" - and include the following for each of the features:

• A clear title
• A case study example (PR will suggest a suitable example)
• A description of the feature
• An explanation of how the feature is formed
• A photo
• A hand drawn diagram or diagrams (which you could replicate in an exam)

Think carefully about layout and a consistent "corporate style" - each landform presented in the same way with the same page layout.

What resources can I use to help me?

• Resource Booklet
• Understanding GCSE Geography Textbook
• Y10 Pupil Folder on VLE - PowerPoint presentation on arches, stacks etc.
• Internet (see below)

You might find some of these websites helpful:


http://www.geographypages.co.uk/holderness.htm
http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/holdernesscoast.html
http://www.bennett.karoo.net/topics/coasts.htmlhttp://www.coastalexplorer.eastriding.gov.uk/

Artistic Clues to Coastal Change

"Nineteenth Century artwork is a useful tool for studying coastal erosion, according to a retired coastal engineer."

Want to read more?

Click HERE to link to the BBC website

The Holderness Coast - change over time...

The AQA A2 Specification states that students must:
"study a small-scale coastline, using OS maps and other historical evidence if available to analyse changes over time"

Don't forget that this case study will also help you to learn about features of erosion and deposition as well coastal problems and coastal management (in other words, lots of the other sections of the Specification!)

In addition to the paper resources that I will give to you, make sure that you make use of the following electronic resources:

An outstanding site is provided by Hull University and can be found at http://www.herb.hull.ac.uk/erosion/html/geography.html

This is suggested by "Kay" whose AS/A2 website is top notch for coasts (and lots of other topics)

- click onto http://www.geography.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

A jolly little intro to Holderness is provided at

http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/topics/holdernesscoast.html

Detailed rates of erosion (and lots of other info) are provided by http://www.nerc.ac.uk/lois/coastl.shtm

Useful links, photos and a whole lot more can be found at http://www.geographypages.co.uk/holderness.htm

And finally...a smashing set of annotated photos can be found at http://www.holgate.info/Environmental%20pages/EcoHolgate/fieldwork/Processes/coastpics.htm