WorksheetsBumper Coasts Quiz
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 23mins
What are the two types of wave called?
Red and Green
High and low
Big and little
Constructive and Destructive
Why do we need to protect coastal areas?
People like to eat fish and chips there
They are areas of settlement, lots of people live there
They provide habitats for wildlife
They are popular tourist destinations which brings income to the area
What do waves need to form?
Boats
A strong wind, a long fetch and a length of time for the wind to blow
A tsunami
An earthquake
Longshore drift involves what process? (hint: focus on drift)
Transportation of material
Erosion
People
Depositing material
What forms of coastal erosion take place?
Hydraulic action
Attrition
Abrasion
Solution
What is the 'swash'?
When a wave breaks, water is washed up the beach
When the water runs back down the beach
When water deposits material
The erosion of the coast
What is a form HARD engineering to protect the coast?
Beach replenishment
Managed retreat
Sea walls
Sand dune regeneration
Which process involves the wearing away of the coastline by powerful waves?
Transportation
Deposition
Erosion
Long shore drift
How does rock type affect rates of coastal erosion?
Older rocks erode more quickly
Harder rock erodes more slowly
Harder rock erodes more quickly
Bigger rocks erode first
What is deposition?
When waves lose energy and drop sediment along the coast.
The wearing away of land by water or wind.
The movement of sediment along the beach.
The distance that the wind has traveled over water.
What are destructive waves?
Waves with a strong swash and gentle backwash.
Waves with a strong backwash and gentle swash.
Giant waves that come far into land.
Large tidal waves that move up rivers.
What is attrition?
Sediment grinds against the cliff like sandpaper
Chemicals in the sea water dissolve rock on the cliff face
Waves smash into the cliff forcing air into cracks
Rocks smash into each other becoming smaller and more rounded
A large fetch creates big waves because...
the wind has traveled a long distance
the wind is falling from a great height
the wind has less energy
the wind has traveled over the land
Rock armour prevents erosion by: (2)
absorbing the energy of the waves
deflecting the energy of the waves
dissolving the energy of the waves
eroding the energy of the waves
This castle is situated on hard rock sticking out to sea. This is called:
a headland
a bay
a wave-cut platform
a spit
Which are hard engineering strategies? (2)
Beach nourishment
Managed retreat
Rock armour
Groynes
How do groynes prevent erosion?
They deflect the energy of the waves
They provide platforms for fishing
They trap sediment and build up the beach
They increase longshore drift
Which are depositional landforms? (2)
Spits
Wave-cut platforms
Beaches
Caves
Which is the correct order?
Stack, stump, cave, arch
cave, arch, stump, stack
cave, stack, arch, stump
cave, arch, stack, stump
Identify this coastal landform:
a wide gently-sloping surface found at the foot of a cliff.
Spit
cliff
wave cut platform
cave
Identify the landform.
Sea arch
Tombolo
Sea Stack
Stump
Identify the landform type.
Sea Stack
Sea Stump
Arch
Bay
What is the name of the landform in this picture?
Spit
Wave Cut Platform
Arch
Stack
