'O' level Geography

1. What's expected for today
1. Explain the formation of a coastal cliff with:
Diagram/s + explanation in complete sentences
80% accuracy
2. Predict what landform would be created if a
cliff keeps retreating inland.

2. Explain how this cliff is formed using diagrams and
complete sentences (10min).
Hunstanton, Norfolk
From tournorfolk.com.uk

3. Cliff: let's review
(use a different ink color)
Diagram/s: Fig. 7.13A-C on textbook p. 142 is
acceptable. You must have:
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Labeled the diagram/s: “Figure 1: Formation of a
coastal cliff”
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Labeled all features: land, sea, high tide, low tide,
notch/cave, overhang/roof, sediments, cliff

Draw dotted lines showing the previous state of
the rock face

4. Cliffs: let's review
Written explanations should REFER to the
diagrams, using phrases such as:

“Figure 1 shows...”

“In Figure 1...”

“Looking at Figure 1”

“With reference to Figure 1”

5. Cliff: let's review
Explanations must be 
Gradually, these lines
written in complete enlarge to form a
sentences using notch at the foot of
the rock face.
these key phrases
and concepts:

As the waves
continues to undercut

Repeatedly the rock, the
pounding waves overhang/roof of the
causes lines of cave collapses,
weakness to form on forming a steep cliff.
the rock face.

6. Predict... (5min)
If the cliff continues to recede inland,
how would the coast look like?

Answer by drawing a diagram and writing in
point form.

7. Shore platform: let's find out
Explanations must be 
Waves during the high
written in complete tide deposit
sentences using these sediments on this
surface after losing
key phrases and energy from friction
concepts: with the shallow

Further erosion causes surface.
the cliff to 
This surface is only
recede/retreat inland. exposed during the

Eventually, a gently low tide and is the
sloping/flat surface shore platform.
may form at the foot of
the cliff.

8. Reflection (5min)
Answer this question in your Geography journal:
Is the shore platform formed by
erosion or deposition?
Why do you say so?