Impact Coast Change Word Scramble
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Term | Definition | Detail |
Recession | The landward movement of the coastline due to marine erosion | (blank) |
Accretion | The incremental movement seawards due to marine deposition | (blank) |
Sediment Starvation | Loss of sediment supply to an area due usually to human activity | ie. groyne construction "updrift" of the site |
Distributaries | River branches that split apart from the main channel and do not rejoin it | Associated with deltas |
Delta Environment | The geomorphological and ecological conditions associated with deltas | (blank) |
Risk Assessment | A technique for assessing the risk of damage to an area due to a hazard such as coastal flooding | (blank) |
Reccurance Levels | The frequency with which particular levels of hazards such as flooding are likely to recur | (blank) |
Climatic Change | Changes to the nature of the climate either locally or globally | This has occured throughout the planet's history due to natural causes. In recent times human action , notably the emission of greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere |
Global Warming | The steady increase in the global mean temperature experienced over the past century. | This is thought not to be natural but caused or enhanced by human action, notably the emisssion of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. |
Atoll | Ring of coral forming around a circular island | (blank) |
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