Coasts can be classified as submerged/____ or elevated/____. A ____ is a drowned, glaciated or ____-shaped valley. ____ It is a feature of a ____ upland or ____ coast. It's due to an ____ rise in ____ level caused by post Ice Age ____ temperatures in the past and this continued by ____ warming today. ____ sea temperatures also cause seawater to spread or ____ and rise-up which ____ coastal valleys like ____ Harbour in County ____. A ____ is a ____ youthful river or a ____ shaped valley also due to this ____ rise in ____ level. ____ One example is the ____ River on the ____ coastline of counties ____ and Cork. An ____ is a drowned ____ River Valley where mouths, ____ meet the ____. Examples in Ireland include the ____ Estuary and ____ Estuary in County ____. These ____ drumlins formed when glaciated ____ are drowned by ____ rise in ____ levels. Irish examples include the whaleback/____ shaped islands of ____ Bay in County ____. A ____ beach is a feature of an ____ or raised ____ coast. It is a new ____ that developed on a wave cut platform and wave-built terrace now raised ____ above the new sea level. The ____ had been ____ down under the ____ of the ____ sheet. Eventually recovered and ____, lifting these features above the new ____ level where new ____ of erosion and ____ are being formed today, like the ____ Road in County ____. A wide ____ is a feature of a ____ coastal coast. It is the former ____ shelf now ____ above the new ____ level by an ____ rise in land level or ____ fall in sea level. One example is the ____ Strand near ____ Strand. An ____ meander is a feature of ____ rivers. Whose ____ or sea level has been lowered by an ____ rise in land level or eustatic fall in sea level. As its ____ level is lowered, vertical ____ resumes and the river rushes down to this ____ base level. Meanders ____ themselves into their floodplains at ____ Points/Waterfalls, and these former ____ are left high above the ____ river level as ____ terraces. These features are found in the river Nore in ____. And new ____. A ____ fall in sea level occurs at the start of an ____ Age when the water cycle is ____, and precipitation now falls as ____, becoming trapped in the ice ____. It is not returned to the ____ so sea levels ____ worldwide, lowering ____ base levels.

Jamie - Classification of coasts

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