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  • Home
    • IB Geography Intro
    • Assessment Outline >
      • Mark Bands
      • Command Terms
    • Concepts in IB Geography
  • IB Geo Units
    • The Core >
      • 1. Changing Population >
        • 1. Population and economic development patterns
        • 2. Changing population & places
        • 3. Challenges & opportunities
      • 2. Global Climate Change >
        • 1. Causes of climate change
        • 2. Consequences of climate change
        • 3. Responding to climate change
      • 3. Global Resource Consumption >
        • 1. Global trends in consumption
        • 2. The Impacts of changing trends in resource consumption
        • 3. Resource stewardship
      • Infographic Analysis
    • Options >
      • B. Oceans & Coastal Margins >
        • 1. Ocean–atmosphere interactions
        • 2. Oceans & Coastal Places
        • 3. Managing coastal margins
        • 4. Ocean management futures
      • D: Geophysical Hazards >
        • 1. Geophysical systems
        • 2. Geophysical Hazard Risks
        • 3. Hazard Risk and Vulnerability
        • 4. Future Resilience and Adaptation
      • E. Leisure, Tourism & Sport >
        • 1. Changing leisure patterns
        • 2. Tourism and sport at the local and national scale
        • 3. Tourism & sport at the international scale
        • 4. Managing tourism and sport for the future
      • F. Food & Health >
        • 1. Measuring Food & Health
        • 2. Food Systems & Spread of Disease
        • 3. Stakeholders in Food & Health
        • 4. Future Health & Food Secuirty
      • G. Urban Environments >
        • 1. The variety of urban environments
        • 2. Changing urban systems
        • 3. Urban stresses
        • 4. Sustainable Cities
    • Global Interactions >
      • 4. Power, Place and Networks >
        • 1. Global interactions and global power
        • 2. Global networks and flows
        • 3. Human and physical influences on global interactions
      • 5. Human development and diversity >
        • 1. Development opportunities
        • 2. Changing identities and cultures
        • 3. Local responses to global interactions
      • 6. Global risks and resilience >
        • 1. Geopolitical and economic risks
        • 2. Environmental risks
        • 3. Local and global resilience
    • Case Studies
    • Internal Assessment >
      • Ko Samet Introduction
      • Butlers Model
      • Fieldwork Prep
      • Report Prep Resources
    • Geographic Skills >
      • GPS - Geographic Proficiency Skills
      • Map Skills
      • Written Skills
      • Analytical Skills
      • Field Work Skills
    • Revision
  • MYP I&S
    • Y9 I&S >
      • Unit 1: Sustainable Futures >
        • 1. Introducing Sustainability
        • 2. Visioning Our Future
        • 3. Creating Sustainable Futures
      • Unit 2: Money Matters
      • Unit 3: Conflict
      • Y9 Current Events
    • Y10 I&S >
      • Castaway - Intro Activity
      • Unit 1: Oceans - The Big Blue
      • Unit 2: It's All Connected
      • Unit 3: Social Enterprises
      • Unit 4: Catalysts for Change
      • Unit 5: IDU - Expressions for Change
      • UN SDGs
      • Current Events
    • Y11 I&S >
      • Unit 1: Development
      • Unit 2: The Psychology of Marginalization
      • Unit 3: The Russian Revolution
  • Geo@NIST
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    • Geo Inspiration
    • Why Geography?
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2. Interactions between oceans and coastal places

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Syllabus Link: How coastal places are shaped by their interactions with oceans

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Physical Influences on Coasts

Physical influences on coastal landscapes, including waves, tides, sediment supply, lithology, vegetation, subaerial processes and wave processes (littoral drift, hydraulic action and abrasion)
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Waves

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   Reading: Waves explained
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BBC Bitesized - Waves
   Website: Fundamentals of waves
   Website: Behaviour of waves

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Tides

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Littoral Currents

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   Worksheet: Physical influences on coastlines #2
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   Video: Coast processes explained
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   Website: BBC bite sized - Coastal processes
   Website: Coastal processes

Sediment Supply

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Wave Erosion Processes

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   Video: Marine erosion processes explained
   Website: Marine processes
   Video: Exam practice - Explaining a coastal process using a diagram

Landforms of Erosion & Deposition

The characteristics and formation of coastal landforms of erosion and deposition, including wave cut platform, cliff, stack, spit and beaches.
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   Activity: Can Detective Geo Morph shape up?
   Webpage: BBC Bitesized - Landforms of erosion
   
Webpage: BBC Bitesized - Landforms of deposition
   Reading: Coasts of erosion and deposition

Changes in Sea Level

Advancing and retreating coastlines, including the role of isostatic and eustatic processes, and the associated landforms (relict cliff, raised beach, fjord)
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   Article: 3 degrees of warming will leave cities below sea level
   Article: Melting ice sheets are hastening sea level rise
   Article: Global sea levels to rise by up to 1.2 metres
   Article: With rising sea levels Bangkok struggles to stay afloat

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Sea level change from Steven Heath
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   Worksheet: Advancing and retreating coasts
   Reading: Sea level change and coastal landforms

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Sand Dune Development

The role of coastal processes, wind and vegetation in sand dune development
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   Reading: Sand dune formation
   Video: Sand dune formation
   Activity: Sand dune formation story board
   Reading: Sand dune geofacts
   Video: Sand dune formation practice question

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