Coasts iGCSE

Identify this landform

• Stack

• Wave-cut pillar

• Blow-hole

• Raised pinnacle

The maximum distance a wave can have travelled from is called the….

• Fetch
• Drift
• Draft
• Swell

Which of these is a landform of erosion?

• Bar
• Spit
• Bay
• Salt-marsh

Identify this type of sea defence

• Gabion

• Revetment

• Groyne

• Seawall

Identify this type of sea defence

• Gabion

• Revetment

• Groyne

• Seawall

Identify this type of sea defence

• Gabion

• Revetment

• Groyne

• Seawall

When pebbles on a beach smash together and round erode each other smaller and rounder, this is called….

• Abrasion
• Corrosion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action

When sediment carried by the sea is thrown against the cliffline and erodes it, this is called…..

• Abrasion
• Corrosion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action

When the seawater reacts chemically with the cliffs and they are thus eroded, this is called…..

• Abrasion
• Corrosion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action

When waves drive air into microscopic cracks in rocks and the compression begins to erode them apart, this is called…..

• Abrasion
• Corrosion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action