Geography Quiz

1. What is the coastline?

• Where a lake meets land
• The boundary between the land and the sea
• The banks of a river
• Where new land is created

2. What type of weathering has taken place in the image below?

• Biological weathering
• Chemical weathering
• Freeze-thaw weathering

3. What type of weathering is shown in the image below?

• Biological weathering
• Chemical weathering
• Freeze-thaw weathering

4. What type of weathering occurs when rainwater, which is slightly acidic, comes into contact with rock?

• Biological weather
• Chemical weathering
• Freeze-thaw weathering

5. What type of erosion is described as ‘waves pick up rocks from the sea and throw them against the cliff face’?

• Abrasion
• Attrition
• Hydraulic Action
• Corrosion/solution

6. What type of erosion involves rocks hitting against each other, getting smaller and more rounded?

• Hydraulic Action
• Attrition
• Abrasion
• Corrosion/solution

7. What type of erosion is described as ‘salts or chemicals in the water act to dissolve the rocks they touch’

• Corrosion/solution
• Abrasion
• Hydraulic Action
• Attrition

8. What is the term for the scientific study of the physical structure and features of the Earth, it’s landforms and processes?

• Geomorphology
• Geology
• Geography
• Lithosphere

9. The image below is showing two landforms created by erosion. What landform is labelled 1?

• Wave-cut platform
• Bay
• Stump
• Headland

10. Using the image above, what landform is labelled 2?

• Stack
• Bay
• Headland
• Wave-cut platform