OUTLINE UNIT 6 MARINE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

1.- INTRODUCTION
-Introduction the coast
- Explaining waves

2.- MARINE PROCESSES: WORK CARRIED OUT BY MOVEMENTS OF THE SEA.

2.1.- Why do some waves erode and others deposit material?
2.2.- Marine erosion
2.3.- Marine transportation
2.4.- Marine deposition

3.- LANDFORMS FORMED BY MARINE PROCESSES

3.1.- Landforms formed by marine erosion
- Caves, arches and stacks.
3.2.- Landforms of coastal deposition
- Beaches
- Spits and bars
- Salt marshes and mangrove swamps
- Coastal sand dunes

4.- CORAL REEFS

4.1.- Types of coral reefs.

GLOSSARY:
Cliff, coastline, tide, tidal range, shore, freak waves, fetch, swell, trade winds, bob,
trough, shingle, longshore drift, groynes, stacks, spits, bars, slacks, gabions.