TBSHS GCSE Geography: Coasts Quiz 3

Differential erosion of more and less resistant rocks best explains the formation of which erosional landforms?

• Beaches and spits

• Spits and bars

• Headlands and bays

• Arches and stacks

Headlands and bays are most likely to be formed along which type of coast?

• Discordant coasts

• Coasts with impermeable rock

• Concordant coasts

• Coast with permeable rock

A gently sloping rocky area at the bottom of a retreating cliff:

• Wave cut notch

• Beach

• Headland

• Wave cut platform

The area at the bottom of a cliff that destructive waves attack:

• Above the high water mark.

• Between the high and low water marks.

• Below the low water mark.

• The overhanging rock.

The correct sequence of headland evolution:

• Cave, joint, arch, stack, stump

• Joint, cave, arch, stump, stack

• Stack, arch, stump, joint, cave

• Joint, cave, arch, stack, stump

Limestone and chalk are particularly susceptible to which types of marine erosion?

• Freeze-thaw weathering

• Solution

• Longshore drift

• Hydraulic action

"The wearing away and removal of material by a moving force, such as a breaking wave" is which process?

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Transportation

• Weathering

"The movement of eroded material" is which process?

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Weathering

"Material being transported by the sea is dropped due to the sea losing energy" is which process?

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Weathering

Which type of erosional process is this? - "The force of the water against the cliff can cause air to be trapped in cracks and crevices. The pressure weakens the cliff and gradually wears it away."

• Abrasion

• Attrition

• Solution

• Hydraulic action