New Key Geography for GCSE Links - Chapter 2 - Coasts

How do waves wear away the land? - pages 26 and 27 & Activity Sheet 2.1

The School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton University, UK have a website about Old Harry Rocks which explains their formation, and includes digital images of the feature.
Visit this website
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/harry.htm

1. Download a digital image of Old Harry Rocks into a desktop publishing file.
2. Use the software tools to label the characteristic erosional features on the image.

Newstories about coastal erosion in the UK

Monday, 6 August, 2001, 13:48 GMT 14:48 UK
Coastal erosion: The first UK map
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1475905.stm

What are the causes, effects and human responses to cliff erosion? - pages 32 and 33

Labelling coastal features on aerial photographs
Click on the link to the Multimap website, once you have read the following instructions.
http://www.multimap.com/

Having completed the activities from page 33 in the pupil’s book, use the search engine on the site to locate the same area shown in your sketch, Milford on Sea will be the best place name to use in the search.
Areas B and C can be viewed together at 1: 50 000, click on the aerial photograph button on Multimap to convert the map into a photograph, copy and paste the aerial photograph into desktop publishing software and repeat activities 3 and 4 (on page 33), using the software tools to annotate the aerial photograph.
Locate area A using Multimap, and repeat activity 2 annotating an aerial photograph in the DTP software.

Note: if you click on the overlay map button, you can view the aerial photograph within Multimap with a moveable OS map overlay, a great way to improve your map skills.

Holderness a disappearing coastline - Activity sheets 2.5 a & b

You can find more information about this coastline at the following websites:

Natural Environment Research Council Land Ocean Interaction Study
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/lois/
This case study provides an excellent range of resources about coastal erosion on the Holderness coast. The site includes an interactive map of the Holderness coastline, where the user can access more detailed information about key locations along the coast.

NELincs Lighthouse website
http://tlfe.org.uk/air/default.htm
The ‘Humberside from the Air’ resource is published on this website. This is a complete collection of high quality aerial photographs of the Humberside area and the Humber estuary; taken in 1996.

Activity
Download aerial photographs showing coastal defences and label them to show how people are attempting to manage this coastline. The following images are particularly useful – Mappleton, Cowden, Withernsea, Spurn Point, Flamborough Head,

Digital image activities
The digital images below show the sea defences built at Mappleton and Withernsea, settlements on the Holderness coast. Click on the thumbnail of these images to access larger pictures. Copy and paste these into a DTP file and use the software tools to annotate the images to explain the purpose of the sea defences and how successful you think they are. You could link these images to the aerial photographs on the North East Linc. Lighthouse website.

Withernsea

Mappleton

What are the causes, effects and responses to coastal flooding in Britain? - pages 34 and 35

The following news stories from the BBC News website provide more recent examples of the threat of coastal flooding in the UK.

Saturday, 22 September, 2001, 14:44 GMT 15:44 UK
Flood money for Norfolk coast
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1558088.stm

Friday, 11 October, 2002, 01:00 GMT 02:00 UK
Letting the sea protect the land
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2317397.stm

What are the causes, effects and responses to coastal flooding in Bangladesh? - pages 36 and 37

Monday, 12 August, 2002, 13:11 GMT 14:11 UK
Thousands flee Bangladesh floods
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2188426.stm
This article and the links provided with it on the BBC News website could be used to help you complete the mini enquiry activity on page 37 of the pupil’s book.

Why does the Wessex coast need to be protected? - pages 38 and 39
Activity 2.7

An artificial reef for Bournemouth

Bournemouth Surfing Centre
http://www.bournemouth-surfing.co.uk/index.html
Click on the link to Reef to find out the latest developments in this unusual attempt at coastal management

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