A Level Coasts 2B.2

What is dip

• How the rock is broken apart by waves

• The angle of strata

• The number of joints in a rock

• The deformation of the rock units

A fault can also be know as a

• bedding plane

• lithology

• fracture

• strata

The coast of Dalmatia is an example of

• a concordant coastline

• a discordant coastline

• an Atlantic coastline

• an Holocene coastline

The Holocene period began about

• 2 million years ago

• 12 000 years ago

• 15 000 years ago

• 500 years ago

Wave refraction causes wave energy to be

• concentrated in bays

• reduced so that deposition occurs

• concentrated on headlands

• evenly spread out along a coastline

An anticline is a

• concave fold

• downfold

• U shaped fold

• upfold

The small cove just west of Lulworth Cove is called

• Stair Hollow

• Stairs Cove

• Stair Hole

• Step Cove

Horizontal strata tend to result in

• landslips and low angle profile cliffs

• many fissures and joints

• beaches and off shore bars

• vertical or near vertical profile cliffs

The most resistant rock along the coast at Lulworth Cove is called

• Chalk

• Wealden clay

• Portland limestone

• Granite

Haff coastlines are a type of concordant coast found

• along the southern Baltic Sea

• along the southern North Sea

• along the western Adriatic Sea

• on the Atlantic coast of SW Ireland