Coastal Depositional Features

True or False: Along the coastline, wind, waves, currents and any rivers entering the sea all work together to transport sediment.

• True

• False

True of False: Deposition occurs when the flow of water loses it's energy.

• True

• False

Beaches are formed when sediment is deposited on the shore by

• destructive waves.

• constructive waves.

• beach waves.

• building waves.

Sediment found on a beach can include...

• sand gravel and boulders.

• sand and some pebbles.

• clays, silts and pebbles.

• silt, sand, gravel and boulders.

True or False: Quartz is the most common mineral found on beaches.

• True

• False

Sea shells are made from...

• Carbonate soda.

• Bicarbonate of Soda.

• Calcium Carbonate.

• Carbonate Calcium.

The intertidal zone of a beach is the area that is...

• submerged at low tide and exposed at high tide.

• submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.

• created during the period between low and high tide.

• moves along the beach during the period between low and high tide.

True or False: It is normal for beaches to have a summer and winter profile.

• True

• False

Constractive waves are characterised by...

• having neither a swash or a backwash.

• a swash and backwash of equal strength.

• a stronger backwash than swash.

• A stronger swash than backwash.

The feature called a berm marks the area of the beach which is at the...

• end of the swash zone.

• beginning of the swash zone

• the middle of the swash zone.