1. Welcome back year 10!

2. Folders
• Name / Geographical Investigation / 10R
• Write your target grade & required mark:
A* = 34/36
A = 32/36
B = 30/36 Important:
C = 27/36
Anyone getting above a C
D = 23/36 overall needs to get at
least 40/60 for their
controlled assessments

3. Controlled Assessment
Due: 1st June
Fieldwork Focus : Coastal
Management

4. Controlled assessment title
“HOW DO GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES
AFFECT YOUR CHOSEN STUDY AREA?”

5. Important information
 Location: Hengistbury Head, Dorset
Trip date: 25th April (compulsory)
Worth 36 marks, 15%
Workshops Wednesdays & during Easter/May
half term

6. What can you remember about
coasts?
Processes?
Landforms?
Management?

7. You will need to be able to do thigns
like this:
Q: “With the use of a diagram, explain the
process and effects of longshore drift” [4marks]

8. Useful links….
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ge
ography/coasts/coastal_processes_video.shtml
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ge
ography/geographical_skills/controlled_assess
ment_rev2.shtml

9. Types of coastal erosion?

10. Erosion is……. the wearing away of
materials by one of four processes:
 Corrosion = chemical reactions of salt water
weakening rocks like an acid
 Attrition = Pebbles hitting into each other or into
cliffs making rocks break and get smaller and rounder
 Abrasion = ‘sand paper’ effect. Waves throwing small
stones and pebbles at cliffs and beaches to smooth the
material
 Hydraulic Action = Power of the water forcing its way
into cracks and weaknesses in rocks, splitting apart

11. The main landforms created by erosion are…

12. Headlands and Bays

13. What about waves?

14. If you were a wave, and you wanted to grow big and strong so you
could knock the UK’s block off, which direction would you come from?
Why?

15. Waves
• There are two main types of waves:
• Constructive vs Destructive

16. So, the controlled assessment
How does it work?

17. Example controlled assessments from
last year
• Take a look at what you will be producing
• You will have prep time before the trip, then
the trip on 25th April, then the analysis
afterwards
• Key things = keywords, theory, analysis,
explanation, evaluation

18. Example checklist

19. What does the markscheme
look like?
How will you be marked?
Look at last year’s examples – peer assess

20. HOW DO GEOMORPHIC PROCESSES
AFFECT HENGISTBURY HEAD?

21. Mindmapping key questions
• Break the essay question down into 3 or 4 key
questions that you could investigate
• Key questions are essential
• Think up questions, think how you could
answer them – what data would you need to
collect

22. Key questions?
E.g.
• What it the location of Hengistbury Head? What is H.H. like…?
• What are geomorphic processes?
• What geomorphic processes are occurring at H.H.?
• How are geomorphic processes changing the landscape?
• What landforms are these geomorphic processes creating?
• How are people/environment affected? (positive/negative)
• Is there any evidence of coastal management to reduce the impact
of geomorphic processes?

23. Prep for the intro: the location
Where is Hengistbury Head? What is
the location like?

24. Location maps
• Essential skill
• Key way to pick up marks – not included in word
limit
Task:
• Annotate the O.S. map & satellite image of H.H.
to show features, landforms, management, land
use, etc.
• What map evidence is there of geomorphic
processes? (e.g. landforms? Management?)

25. Map 1: Ordnance Survey Map showing location details of Hengistbury Head
Key:
This area is
already heavily
defended with
rock groynes
which attempt
to reduce the
movement of
beach material
along the
shore caused Mudeford Spit has been
by longshore created by longshore drift and
drift is a landform of depositino. It
is mainly used for beach huts
as seen in Photo A. The spit is
important for tourism.
Photo A

28. Useful links
In terms of secondary data:
• Geology: http://www.hengistburyhead.org/nature/geology.html
• Geology http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/Hengistbury-Head-Geology.htm
• Lots of useful stuff here: http://www.scopac.org.uk/
• A newspaper article giving some good context on the effect of geomorphic
processes:
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4542643.___Hengistbury_Head_could
_disappear__over_next_century___/
• And the excellent Hengistbury Head website - http://www.hengistbury-
head.co.uk/index.html
• Google Earth – use the history bar and track changes over time
In terms of skills:
• BBC Bitesize now has a handy CA section:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/geographical_skills/
• The FSC has some handy 'how to guides' available here: http://www.geography-
fieldwork.org/coastfieldwork/index.htm ; including pebbble roundness and beach
profiles http://www.geography-
fieldwork.org/coastfieldwork/coastal_management/stage2.htm