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    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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    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

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    solomon
    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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