Coasts: Erosion, Landforms and Management

Categories: Geography, Key Stage 3
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About Course

A Key Stage 3 geography course on coasts: how waves shape the coastline, the processes of erosion, transport and deposition, the landforms they create – from caves, arches and stacks to beaches and spits, with UK examples – and how people try to manage coastal erosion.

Tutwoo Kids is an independent learning provider. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department for Education, Ofqual or any exam board. Our certificates celebrate completing a course; they are not qualifications.

What Will You Learn?

  • Describe constructive and destructive waves and coastal processes Explain how headlands, bays, caves, arches, stacks and stumps form Explain longshore drift and the formation of beaches and spits Evaluate hard and soft engineering approaches to coastal management

Course Content

Course Lessons

  • Waves and coastal processes
  • Erosional landforms
  • Transport, deposition and depositional landforms
  • Managing the coast

For grown-ups
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