Y8 End of Year Big Fat Geo Quiz

What is this landform?

• Spit
• Sand dune
• Stack
• Stump

Which is a landform of coastal erosion?

• Stack
• Spit
• Sand Dune
• Bar

What is the name for the coastline which has alternating bands of hard and soft rock in the same direction as the coastline?

• Discordant
• Concordant

What is the first stage in a stack formation?

• Arch is formed
• Cave is formed
• Line of weakness in rock
• Stump is formed

I am the type of erosion where sediment scrapes against the headland. What am I?

• Attrition
• Hydraulic action
• Solution
• Abrasion

I happen when the waves don't have enough energy to carry sediment

• Deposition
• Erosion
• Swash
• Backwash

I transport material along a beach. What am I.

• Longshore Drift
• Longshape Drift
• Longnose Drift
• Longway drift

I am the forward motion of waves

• Backwash
• Swash

What ecosystem forms behind a spit?

• Sand Dune
• Salt Marsh
• Coral Reef
• Mangrove

The type of erosion that occurs when pebbles bang together

• Abrasion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic action
• Solution