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Coasts & Sustainability

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is this landform?
a)
Spit
b)
Sand dune
c)
Stack
d)
Stump
2.
What is the name for the coastline which has alternating bands of hard and soft rock in the same direction as the coastline?
a)
Discordant
b)
Concordant
3.
I am the type of erosion where sediment scrapes against the headland. What am I?
a)
Attrition
b)
Hydraulic action
c)
Solution
d)
Abrasion
4.
I transport material along a beach. What am I.
a)
Longshore Drift
b)
Longshape Drift
c)
Longnose Drift
d)
Longway drift
5.
What ecosystem forms behind a spit?
a)
Sand Dune
b)
Salt Marsh
c)
Coral Reef
d)
Mangrove
6.
What is this landform?
a)
Arch
b)
Cave
c)
Headland
d)
Wave-cut Platform
7.
What is this landform?
a)
Spit
b)
Bar
c)
Tombolo
8.
Destructive waves have...
a)
A strong backwash
b)
A strong swash
c)
A strange name
9.
An example of mass movement is...
a)
slumping
b)
a digger
c)
groynes
d)
sea walls
10.
What best describe hydraulic action?
a)
Sediment grinds against the cliff
b)
Sediment is thrown at the cliff
c)
Waves smash into the cliff compression air which weakens the cliff
11.

The balance of the changing nature of the world is:

a)

Dynamic Equalibrium

b)

Sustainability

c)

Long shore Drift

d)

Change

12.

Which type of coastal erosion occurs when rocks crash against each other, breaking them down into smaller and rounder pieces.

a)

Hydraulic action

b)

Solution

c)

Abrasion

d)

Attrition

13.

What determines the direction of swash and longshore drift?

a)

Backwash

b)

Wind

c)

Prevailing Wind Direction

d)

The tides

14.

Bacteria absorbing oil spills is an example of which ecosystem service?

a)

Source

b)

Sink

c)

Service

d)

Spirituality

15.

Where oxygen concentration becomes too low to support marine life, a _________ is created.

a)

Pollution Zone

b)

Marine Dead Zone

c)

Ocean Dead Space

d)

Water Pollution Zone

16.
Constructive waves...
a)
Are tall in relation to width
b)
have a stronger swash than backwash
c)
have a stronger backwash than swash
d)
occur most often in winter
17.
The maximum distance a wave can have travelled from is called the….
a)
Fetch
b)
Drift
c)
Draft
d)
Swell
18.

Identify this type of sea defence

a)

Gabion

b)

Revetment

c)

Groyne

d)

Seawall

19.
What has happened to resource consumption in the last several hundred years?
a)
it has remained at the same level
b)
it has decreased dramatically
c)
it has decreased only slightly
d)
it has increased dramatically
20.

Which of the following is the best definition of a natural resource:

a)

something we get from the environment

b)

something that we can use from the environment

c)

something humans use to meet our needs

d)

Anything humans get or use from nature to meet our needs or wants

21.

A resource that can restore or renew itself (unless badly mismanaged) or can be used over and over is called a:

a)

Renewable resource

b)

Non-renewable resource

c)

Perpetual resource

d)

Indestructible resource

22.

A resource that can only be used once and cannot be replaced once used is called a...

a)

Renewable resource

b)

Non-renewable resource

c)

Perpetual resource

d)

Infinite resource

23.
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
a)
Biotic are non-living things
b)
Abiotic are living organisms
c)
Biotic is life,
Abiotic is non-living
d)
Biotic is non-living, Abiotic is living
24.

What does sustainability mean?

a)

Using lots of resources.

b)

Maintaining the world we live in for future generations.

c)

Cutting down trees.

d)

Using lots of water and electricity.

25.

Point source pollution is where...

a)

There is a single source of pollution found in one location.

b)

There are multiple sources of pollution in one location.

c)

There are multiple sources converging in a single location

d)

There are subterranean pollution sources converging into a single area.

26.
Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem service?
a)
water filtration
b)
food 
c)
oxygen
d)
they all are!
27.

Which of these refers to Earth's natural resources which have originated directly from the biophysical environment. Examples include water, soil, timber

a)

Sink

b)

Source

c)

Service

d)

Spiritual

28.

Which of these refers to the safe absorption of the wastes and pollution produced by human activities and life. It is the way in which the environment deals with what people put into it.

a)

Sink

b)

Service

c)

Spiritual

d)

Store

29.

Name Island Roman Numeral "III"

a)

Luzon

b)

Mindanao

c)

Borneo

d)

Java

30.

How many people in South East Asia die prematurely each year because of toxic air pollution caused by fires used to clear land for palm oil manufacturing?

a)

12

b)

176

c)

110,000

d)

23,000

31.

What percentage orangutan habitat has been destroyed in the past 20 years?

a)

3%

b)

24%

c)

80%

d)

50%

32.

How many animals are endangered in Indonesia now due to deforestation?

a)

1 in 10

b)

1 in 100

c)

1 in 3

d)

1 in 50

33.

At the beginning of the 20th century, about 250,000 tonnes of palm oil was exported annually from South-East Asia. Now, these figures have risen to...

a)

500,000 tonnes

b)

1 million tonnes

c)

3 million tonnes

d)

nearly 70 million tonnes

34.

Which type of fishing has high rates of bycatch and highly destructive of benthic communities.

a)

Pole Fishing

b)

Long Line Fishing

c)

Purse Seining

d)

Trawling

35.

The graph above shows the change in Canada’s harvest of Atlantic Cod from 1950-2004. What change occurred between 1992-1993?

a)

The stocks of Atlantic Cod collapsed.

b)

Harvests of Atlantic Cod rapidly decreased.

c)

Canada declared a moratorium to all cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador.

d)

All of the above.

36.

What event occurred in the 1950s and 1960s that still affects the world's fisheries today?

a)

An increase in fishing technology led to an increase in fish caught today

b)

Many offshore fisheries became commercially inviable

c)

Worldwide fishing harvests declined

d)

Many fisheries collapsed

37.

Which of the following is the most environmentally responsible method of fishing?

a)

small scale traditional fishing

b)

explosive fishing

c)

bottom trawling

d)

long-line fishing

38.
All the life forms and environments on or near Earth’s surface that are capable of sustaining life
a)
Biomass
b)
Hydrosphere
c)
Lithophere
d)
Biosphere
39.

Four major functions of the environment are

a)

Source, sink, service and Greenhouse Effect

b)

Source, sink, service and biodiversity

c)

Source, sink, service and ecological integrity

d)

Source, sink, service and spiritual

40.

Maintaining biodiversity on Earth is crucial. Healthy biodiversity offers humanity

a)

Ecosystem services

b)

Social benefits

c)

Biological resources

d)

All of the above

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