1. Geography (year 8) Card switching task
Erosional Landform Erosion process Deposition process Deposition Landform
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2. Abrasion: Material transported by waves hits a cliff and slowly wears it away.
Hydraulic action: Air is trapped as waves approach, weakening the rock base
of a cliff.
Attrition: Waves smash the rocks against each other, making the rocks smaller.
Corrosion: Chemicals in the sea dissolve the cliff face over thousands of years.
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Caves: Waves cause little cracks in the cliff making a cave.

3. Arches: Caves expand and the roof of the cliff falls away creating an Arch.
S tacks: As an Arch collapses it leaves a stack of rock like a tower.
Stumps: As a stack collapses it leaves a stump.
Headlands: These rock cliffs stick out from the rest of the
coastline.
Longshore drift: This is how material is transported across a
coastline.
Swash: Carries sediment up a beach at an angle.
Backwash: sediment is pushed at a right angle to a beach by the
process of gravity.
Spits: These long stretches of sand are formed by longshore drift. They connect
with the mainland from one end and stretch into the sea.
Salt marches: Usually formed behind a spit. Sea water is trapped behind the spit
and stagnates forming a lagoon.
Beaches: Sediment is thrown from the sea onto flat land making a beach.
Abrasion: Material transported by waves hits a cliff and slowly wears it away.
Hydraulic action: Air is trapped as waves approach, weakening the rock base of a cliff.
Attrition: Waves smash the rocks against each other, making the rocks smaller.
Corrosion: Chemicals in the sea dissolve the cliff face over thousands of years.
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Caves: Waves cause little cracks in the cliff making a cave.
Arches: Caves expand and the roof of the cliff falls away creating an Arch.
Stacks: As an Arch collapses it leaves a stack of rock like a tower.

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Stumps: As a stack collapses it leaves a stump.
Headlands: These rock cliffs stick out from the rest of the coastline.
Longshore drift: This is how material is transported across a coastline.
Swash: Carries sediment up a beach at an angle.
Backwash: sediment is pushed at a right angle to a beach by the process of gravity.
Spits: These long stretches of sand are formed by longshore drift. They connect with the mainland from one end and
stretch into the sea.
Salt marches: Usually formed behind a spit. Sea water is trapped behind the spit and stagnates forming a lagoon.
Beaches: Sediment is thrown from the sea onto flat land making a beach.