GCSE Geography WJEC B coasts topic revision

1. Revising coasts

2. 2.1 Coasts and coastal management
Coasts
What different
opinions do different
stakeholders have
about managing the
coast?
What are the
advantages and
disadvantages of
different hard and soft
engineering
strategies?
How has climate
change influenced
the coast in an LIC
and in a HIC?
How do people influence
coastal processes for
economic benefit?
How are these landforms
made? Beaches, spits,
caves/ arches/ stacks
and stumps, wave cut
notches and platforms,
headlands/ bays and
estuaries

3. Coastal Processes and Landforms Revision
First you need to know about weathering, erosion and transport
• Beaches (long shore drift and constructive/destructive waves)
• Spits
• Caves/arches/stacks/stumps
• wave cut notches and wave cut platforms
• Headlands and bays
• Estuaries

4. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Management
• Sea Level rise will create problems for coasts in LICs and HICs
• You can manage the coast with soft engineering
• You can manage the coast with hard engineering
Link to ecosystems topic and small scale ecosystem (we studied sand dunes)
• Soft engineering for sand dunes
• How sand dunes are formed and function

5. Extra resources to boost revision and fill gaps
(spits, bays and headlands , transport estuaries were not covered in the
videos above)

6. Weathering
and erosion

7. Headlands
and Bays
Caves,
arches,
stacks and
stumps

8. Transport
and
deposition
(inc. LSD)

9. Spits
and
Bars

10. Hard
and
soft
engineering

11. Rising sea
levels in a
LIC
(Maldives)