Coasts NHTW

What is the term for where the land meets the sea?

• Wave

• Coast

• Fetch

• Arch

What causes a wave in the water?

• The distance the wave has travelled

• The most common wind direction

• Friction with the wind

• The rubbing of rocks against cliffs

What is the term for the distance a wave has travelled?

• Fetch

• Hydraulic action

• Attrition

• Stump

What is the most common wind direction called?

• Arch

• Prevailing wind direction

• Stack

• Corrosion

What is a natural bridge made when a cave is eroded through a headland called?

• Stump

• Stack

• Arch

• Abrasion

What is left when an arch collapses?

• Stump

• Stack

• Hydraulic action

• Attrition

What happens when a stack is eroded at the bottom?

• It forms a wave

• It becomes a stump

• It creates an arch

• It dissolves

What is the process called when waves force water and air into cracks in the rocks?

• Abrasion

• Corrosion

• Hydraulic action

• Attrition

What is the term for the rubbing, grinding, or hitting of rocks against the cliffs?

• Abrasion

• Corrosion

• Hydraulic action

• Fetch

What is the slow dissolving of certain rocks, like limestone, called?

• Attrition

• Corrosion/solution

• Hydraulic action

• Stack