Coasts GCSE

What bests describes a discordant coastline?

• Soft Rock
• Same geology
• Hard Rock
• Different geology

What best describe abrasion?

• Sediment grinds against the cliff
• Sediment is thrown at the cliff
• Waves smash into the cliff compression air which weakens the cliff

What is this landform?

• Arch
• Cave
• Headland
• Wave-cut Platform

What is this landform?

• Arch
• Cave
• Headland
• Wave-cut Platform

What is this landform?

• Arch
• Cave
• Headland
• Wave-cut Platform

What is this landform?

• Spit
• Bar
• Tombolo

Hard rock erodes much more quickly than soft rock.

• True
• False

Destructive waves have...

• A strong backwash
• A strong swash
• A strange name

Which of the words below relate to weathering?

• Chemical, Biological, Physical
• Chemical, Phenological, Physical
• Abrasion, Attrition, Solution
• Physical, Human, Political, Environmental

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