UNIT 2 - Coastal Change and Conflict

What is this landform?

• Spit
• Sand dune
• Stack
• Stump

What is the name for the coastline which has alternating bands of hard and soft rock in the same direction as the coastline?

• Discordant
• Concordant

What is the first stage in a stack formation?

• Arch is formed

• Cave is formed

• Line of weakness in rock

• Stump is formed

I am the type of erosion where sediment scrapes against the headland. Which type of erosion am I?

• Attrition

• Hydraulic action

• Solution / Corrosion

• Abrasion

I occur when the waves don't have sufficient energy to carry sediment.

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Swash

• Backwash

I transport material along a beach. What am I?

• Longshore Drift

• Longshape Drift

• Longnose Drift

• Longway drift

I am the forward motion of waves. What am I?

• Backwash

• Swash

Which ecosystem forms behind a spit?

• Sand Dune

• Salt Marsh

• Coral Reef

• Mangrove

Waves are created by wind.

• True

• False

Which type of erosion occurs when pebbles bang together becoming smaller and smoother?

• Abrasion

• Attrition

• Hydraulic action

• Solution