Geological Oceanography Test

A coast near an area of lithospheric plate convergence is a(n)

• shore

• active coast

• passive coast

• beach

The zone extending from the ocean inland as far as the environment is immediately affected by marine processes is the

• beach

• coast

• shore

• shelf

The place where the land meets water; area between low tide line and high tide line is called the

• beach

• coast

• shore

• slope

A zone of loose sediment that covers part or all of a shore on a depositional coast is a

• beach

• coast

• slope

• shelf

Coasts that form as a result of land processes; the ocean has not had time to modify the terrestrial features provided by changes in sea level

• secondary coast

• active coast

• passive coast

• primary coast

A coast in which erosive processes exceed depositional ones

• depostional coast

• passive coast

• erosional coast

• primary coast

A coast where the amount of exposed coast is increasing; sea level is lowering due to evaporation, freezing, plate tectonics, etc.

• beach

• submergent coast

• emergent coast

• shore

This type of sediment is formed from continents

• terrigenous

• biogenous

• hydrogenous

• cosmogenous

This type of sediment precipitates from water

• terrigenous

• biogenous

• hydrogenous

• cosmogenous

These are deposits made by turbidity currents; graded layers of terrigenous sand interbedded with finer pelagic sediment

• grains

• sediments

• turbidites

• shells