Year 6 Geography Quiz

What is the slow movement of pieces of rock along a beach when waves move towards the shore at an angle?

• Tombolo

• Longshore drift

• Deposition

• Erosion

What is the action of dropping mud, sand, and pebbles when moving water is slowed down?

• Bay

• Bar

• Deposition

• Lagoon

What is a body of water with three-quarters of it surrounded by land?

• Barrier island

• Spit

• River mouth

• Bay

What is a ridge of sand or shingle joined to the land at one end and sticking out into the sea at the other?

• Tombolo

• Spit

• Bar

• Lagoon

What is a ridge of sand or shingle across a bay or river mouth?

• Barrier island

• Lagoon

• Tombolo

• Bar

What is a shallow lake separated from the sea by a sandbank or spit?

• Lagoon

• Tombolo

• Bar

• Spit

What is a ridge of sand or shingle across a bay or river mouth that is always above the sea level?

• Barrier island

• Lagoon

• Spit

• Tombolo

What is the end of a river?

• Bay

• Tombolo

• Deposition

• River mouth

What is the longest spit mentioned in the text?

• Arabat Spit, Sea of Azov, Ukraine

• Lagoa dos Patos lagoon, Brazil

• Farewell Spit, New Zealand

• Chesil Beach bar, England

What is the term for the ridge of sand or shingle across a bay or river mouth?

• Bar

• Lagoon

• Tombolo

• Barrier island