Key Terms
Wave Count
This is where you count the amount of waves that come on to the beach in a certain amount of time.
Cliff Height
This is the distance from the highest point of the cliff to the ground. It is usually measured in meters.
Longshore Drift
This is where waves approach the coastline at an angle, which is not straight on, and material is moved along the coastline.
Pebble Counts
This is the amount of pebbles in a certain area over the beach.
Wave Type
There are two types of different waves. There is Constructive where there is a more powerful swash than backwash and there is also Destructive where there is a stronger backwash than swash.
Tourism
This is the amount of tourists that visit the to beaches and the effect they have on it. There are quite a few influences for this.
Methodology
This is how I collected my data from Eype and West Bay beaches. I started by collecting data from Eype beach and then I moved on to West Bay.
Wave Count
I did this by seeing how many waves came on to the beach over a time 1 minute. I did this five times and worked out the average of the five.
Pebble Count
I did a pebble count by counting the amount of pebbles over a square foot. I did it at Ten-meter intervals from the sea to the base of the cliff. I only counted the amount of pebbles that were on the top layer. I then looked to see if the further you got away from, the sea the larger the pebbles got.
Longshore Drift
I measured this by putting to markers along the beach that were Ten meters apart from one another and then placing an empty plastic bottle with the lid on, into the sea inline with the first marker and then timed it to get to second one.
Wave Type
We measured the wave type by closely watching the waves as they came in, and we looked to see whether they were a Constructive or a destructive wave.
Cliff Height
On Eype beach the cliff was low enough for me to use a tape measure, I went to the top of the cliff and lowered the tape measure down and then recorded the height.
