Geography

• How was mappleton protected

  Built groynes 2 for 2million

  rock armour
• Soft engineering

  Beach nourishment

  sand dunes
• Hard engineering

  Rock armour

  sea walls
• Potential problems of population growth


  • Not enough space
  • Not enough food
  • Not enough water
  • Not enough shelter
• What does sustainable mean

  Using something now without damaging it for future generations
• Urbanisation

  Building houses and more roads
• what is economic growth

  Needing an increase in food and water
• What is sliding

  rocks sliding down a hill
• What is suspension

  Sediment carried along the bed
• What is solution

  Material dissolved in the sea
• who was affected in the hurricane Katrina

  Old people

  poor people

  killed over 1800 people
• how can people make coastal erosion worse

  Groynes
• What is hydraulic action

  Force of the water smashing against the rocks
• What is abrasion 


  Rocks rubbing against the coast
• What is hold the line

  Existing coastal defences are maintained
• What is hard engineering

  Trying to control nature
• What is soft engineering

  Working with nature
• What is a constructive wave

  a wave that builds up a beach and makes it bigger
• What is a destructive wave

  A wave that destroys the beach and makes it smaller
• Why do the uk need to import and export goods

  The uk can’t grow most things so have to get them imported

  the uk export things to get more money to pay to hospitals and roads
• What are vertical lines of weakness in a rocks

  Joints
• What is retreat the line

  Moving people away from the coast to let it erode
• What is solution

  Weak acid dissolving rocks
• What is attrition

  Two rocks banging together
• What does groups mean

  Government

  Residents

  Old people

  Young people

  Plants-environment

  Shops and businesses
• What is a storm surge

  Big waves
• What is slumping

  Mud sliding down a hill
• What is weathering

  It is the break up if a rock
• What is erosion

  The wearing away of a moving rock
• What is deposition

  The pick up of sediment on the sea bed being dropped
• What is traction

  Rocks and sediment being rolled along the sea bed
• What is saltation

  Rocks and sediment banging along the sea bed
• What is counter-urbanisation

  Movement of people from large cities to small towns and villages
• What does deprivation mean

  You don’t have access to things or you are not aloud things
• What strategies can reduce the spread of desertification

  Deforestation

  overgrazing

  zai planting
• What does rural mean

  A countryside
• What does urban mean

  A city
• What does natural increase mean 


  More babies are being born than they are dying