Landforms and Coastal Erosion 3

The action of rocks being weathered will wear them down completely into what substance found on deposited Florida beaches?

• pebbles

• Rockules

• Runoff

• Sand

When the wind blasts sand against rock, some particles are town away from larger rocks. The rubbing of rock against other rocks is known as?

• Abrasion

• Depression

• Alluviation

• Saturation

Shoals are raised landforms made of sand or gravel. They are often called sandbars and are found in and around water bodies such as oceans, rivers, and lakes. Which factor(s) most commonly cause(s) shoals to form or change shape?

My boat just got stuck in this landform that can form off of the coast. Sometimes this can even stick out of the water and you can walk on this.

• Sand dune

• Sandbar

• Ridge

• Headland

A student visits a beach every summer and notices that each year, the water gets closer to the boardwalk. Which of the following is most likely the cause of the student's observation?

Water waves can change Earth's surface and create many interesting landforms. Which landform are created by this type of wave?

• canyons

• oxbow lakes

• sea caves

• sinkholes

Which aspect of Florida's landforms is most rapidly affected by changes in wind speeds?

• lake depth

• dune location

• glacier velocity

• delta formation

Which of these landforms is commonly formed by wind?

• a fiord

• a beach

• a sand dune

• a flood plain

Where a coastline turns and interrupts longshore drift, sand may be deposited in a fingerlike landform called a

• spit

• barrier beach

• sandbar

• headland

Coastlines are an important landform to Florida. Which of the following best describes what is likely to happen to Florida's coastlines over the next 50 years?

• Plants will colonize sand, causing the coastline to slowly move seaward

• Coastlines will slowly erode away and will no longer be an important landform in Florida

• Tides, waves and currents will cause the features of local coastlines to change over time

• The sand will be dissolved into the seawater, leading to the formation of new cliffs