Year 3: Geography Why do people live by the coast? Term – Autumn 2 Key Diagrams Key Information Vocabulary Popular UK 1. Tynemouth Coast The coast is the place where the land and sea meet. coastal 2. Southwold Coasts are often places towns 3. Porthmadog 4. Whitstable where people meet on 5. Aberystwyth holiday. Cave Coastal caves are formed in a Cliff A cliff forms where high land formation cliff by wave action of an meets the sea. The land is ocean or lake. Sea caves occur battered by powerful waves on almost every cliffed at sea level, wearing the rock headland or coast where the away. The rock above is left waves break directly on a rock cliff and are formed by sea and without any support so it wind erosion collapses under its own Stack Stacks form when there is an weight. This makes a steep- sided cliff. formation area of weakness in the cliffs that can be attacked by the Erosion Coastal erosion happens sea, weakened further, and when the sea wears away eroded away. Rocks and part the land. of the cliffs fall and break Cave A natural hollow opening leaving vertical stacked Coastal erosion in Hemsby: underground. columns. Stack A stack or sea stack is a Coastal 28% of the coastline in England landform made of a steep erosion and Wales is under attack from and often vertical column or constant erosion. columns of rock in the sea Holderness A great deal of coastal near a coast. erosion has taken place in the Bay A part of the coast where the Holderness area on the land curves inwards. This is east coast of England. Erosion is where beaches are formed. so dramatic here because the Tourism People traveling for fun. It cliffs along the coast are made includes such activities as from boulder clay, which is soft and crumbly rock. sightseeing and camping. People who travel for fun are called "tourists". .