Development of Coastal Landscapes — Eduqas GCSE Geography B C112
Eduqas GCSE Geography B · C112
Development of Coastal Landscapes
What you need to know
Explain how overarching climate, underlying geology, and widespread human activity deeply influence macro coastal processes and landscapes across the entirety of the UK.
Analyze how shifting seasonal weather patterns and highly extreme weather events drastically influence active rates of coastal erosion and directly contribute to the creation of distinctive coastal landscapes.
Assess how concentrated human activity may inadvertently slow down or dangerously accelerate the natural rate of complex coastal processes.
Describe key overarching geomorphological processes including deep weathering, significant mass movement, and powerful marine processes.
Understand localized erosional marine processes, distinctly including hydraulic action, severe abrasion, continuous attrition, and chemical solution.
Explain the essential localized processes of marine transportation and systematic deposition, including the mechanics of longshore drift, heavy traction, saltation, suspension, and chemical solution.
Explain how these complex interacting physical processes directly create highly distinctive UK coastal landforms, specifically including large cliffs, wave-cut platforms, distinct arches, stacks, headlands, sweeping bays, beaches, complex spits, and estuaries.
Evaluate how significant past human activities have heavily modified the UK's natural coastal landscapes for long-term economic benefit.
