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Coastal Defence Method Work Sheet

This document discusses various coastal defence methods including sea walls, groynes, gabions, rock armour, revetments, and beach nourishment. For each method, it lists advantages and disadvantages. Sea walls are expensive to build but protect towns. Groynes trap sand but can disrupt longshore drift. Gabions absorb wave energy but use a material that needs replacing. Rock armour and revetments allow waves to break before reaching cliffs or sea walls, but rock armour may be an eyesore. Beach nourishment replaces lost sand but requires regular reapplication.

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Coastal Defence Method Work Sheet

This document discusses various coastal defence methods including sea walls, groynes, gabions, rock armour, revetments, and beach nourishment. For each method, it lists advantages and disadvantages. Sea walls are expensive to build but protect towns. Groynes trap sand but can disrupt longshore drift. Gabions absorb wave energy but use a material that needs replacing. Rock armour and revetments allow waves to break before reaching cliffs or sea walls, but rock armour may be an eyesore. Beach nourishment replaces lost sand but requires regular reapplication.

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Coastal defence method

Sea wall

Description

The good and the bad


Advantages

Disadvantages

Groynes

Advantages

Disadvantages

Gabions

Advantages

Disadvantages

Rock armour

Advantages

Disadvantages

Revetments

Advantages

Disadvantages

Beach nourishment

Advantages

Disadvantages

Sea Defences

Copy out the correct statement into the description box next to the
picture it matches.

Try to think of a least one advantage (Good thing) and one


disadvantage (Bad thing) for each method. Think about cost, how
they look, will they break? Etc.

Groynes: Structures

Sea walls: Concrete

Gabions: Steel mesh

placed at right angles wall built to protect

cages filled with

to the beach which

towns. They are

boulders to absorb

trap sand.

expensive to build.

wave energy.

Rock armour: Large

Revetments: Wooden Beach nourishment:

boulders piled on

Structures placed in

Sand added to the

beach allow waves to

front of a cliff which

beach to replace sand

break before they

allows waves to break washed away, but it

reach the cliff or sea before they reach

needs to be replaced

wall. They absorb

regularly.

energy.

the cliff.

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