What are headlands and bays?

Answer 1

Tut....really, dear! Whatever happened to education?

Headlands are land that sticks out into the sea. Lighthouses were often built on the dangerous, rocky ones.

Bays are the curved in bits where you often have beaches, sheltered harbours for boats, little fishing villages and towns, etc.

There - nice and simple so you can understand.

Answer 2

headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A bay is the reverse, an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Large headlands may also be called peninsulas; long, narrow and high headlands promontories. When headlands dramatically affect the ocean currents they are often called capes. A bay generally occupies an area wider than a fjord but smaller than a sound or gulf, either of which may include one or more bays.

Answer 3

Headlands and bays • Form along coastlines where there are alternating outcrops of resistant and less resistant rock • Destructive waves erode softer rock away via the four types of erosion (hydraulic action, attrition, abrasion and solution) to form bays • Waves cannot however erode resistant rock as quickly and so headlands are left protruding out into the sea • Headlands are now exposed to the full force of waves and are more vulnerable to erosion

Answer 4

An headland is a piece of land that juts out into the sea from the main land coast line. A bay is a place that is`cut out` of the main land , by erosion etc. which is filled by the sea. Both are part of the formation of the coast line.

Answer 5

Coastline features, where the coastline projects into the sea, its called a headland. When the coastline goes inland and then out again the recess formed is called a bay.

Answer 6

coastal features formed by erosion. Hard and soft rocks erode at different rates and form these features. look at the bbc website in the schools geography section for an animated explanation

Answer 7

First of all, wrong topic. This is genealogy. Family tree/your roots. This topic has nothing to do with sex, health, finding your lost friend/family or geology. You were close... genealogy / geology. Please try again.........look up the headings. There HAS to be a topic heading that you can fit this question into.

Answer 8

this is genealogy