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WorksheetsCoasts, carbon and globalisation
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which on the UK coastline are off-shore reef used for hard engineering coastal management?
Porlock, North Somerset
Sea Palling, East Norfolk
Wells-Next-The -Sea, North Norfolk
Pevensey Bay, Suffolk
Where is beach replenishment used as a soft engineering strategy.
Porlock, North Somerset
Pevensey Bay, Suffolk
Well-Next-The-Sea, North Norfolk
Sea Palling, East Norfolk
Where is the managed retreat and the creation of salt marshes used as a soft engineering strategy?
Pevensey Bay, Suffolk
Wells-Next-The-Sea, North Norfolk
Sea Palling, East Norfolk
Porlock, North Somerset
Where is sand dune protection used as a soft engineering strategy?
Well-Next-The-Sea North Norfolk
Porlock, North Somerset
Pevensey Bay, Suffolk
Sea Palling, East Norfolk
Which of these is not a form of marine erosion
Hydraulic action
Abrasion
Solution
Traction
Which of these is not a form of mass movement?
Slumping
Longshore-drift
Soil creep
Landslide
Which of these is caused by sea level change?
Wave-cut platforms
Rias
Arches
Salt marshes
Which of these is found closest to the sea in a sand dune system?
Oak trees
Dune slack
Yellow dunes
Embryo dune
Why has the largest global carbon stock in its soil?
Tropical forests
Boreal forests
Tundra
Temperate grassland
How big is a gigatonne/pentagram
100 tonnes
1000 tonnes
1 million tonnes
1 billion tonnes
Which is Norway single greatest energy source?
Oil
Gas
Hydropower
Wind
What is Drax power station doing to reduce it carbon output?
Burning biomass
Carbon capture and storage
Using energy efficient light bulbs
Bike to work scheme
Which country has the world largest reserves of natural gas?
USA
China
Saudi Arabia
Russia
Which country produces the most oil from tar sands?
USA
Canada
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Which of these is a mitigation strategy?
Carbon capture and storage
Land use planning and flood risk management
Drought resistant crops
Pumping sulphur aerosols into the upper atmosphere
Which of these aims to encourage free trade?
IMF
The World Bank
WTO
EU
Which of these measures how globalised a country is?
A T Kearney Index
Gini coefficient
Kuznets Curve
HDI
