WorksheetsTBSHS GCSE Geography: Coasts Quiz 5
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which government department is responsible for the protection of the coastline from flooding and erosion in England and Wales?
Department for Education
Department for Transport
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
The Environment Agency and local governments work together to manage sections of coastline.
There are currently 4 policy options:
No intervention
Toe the line
Hold the line
Managed realignment
Advance the line
Soft engineering:
Involves building artificial defences to interrupt natural processes.
Examples include beach nourishment and sand dune regeneration.
Allowing coastal processes to work and the land to change in a more environmentally sustainable way.
Examples include groynes and rip rap.
Hard engineering:
Involves building artificial defences to interrupt natural processes.
Examples include beach nourishment and sand dune regeneration.
Allowing coastal processes to work and the land to change in a more environmentally sustainable way.
Examples include groynes and rip rap.
Coastal management techniques - sea wall.
Choose the correct statement(s)
They are effective at stopping the sea from eroding cliffs.
They are a cheap way to protect the coast.
They often have a promenade which people can use to exercise.
They work with natural processes.
Coastal management techniques - groynes.
Choose the correct statement(s)
Interrupting the movement of sediment has an impact further along the coast.
They are a cheaper than a sea wall.
They trap sediment and widen the beach.
They are an example of soft engineering.
Coastal management techniques - rock armour (rip rap).
Choose the correct statement(s)
The rocks force waves to break, absorbing wave energy.
They can impede access to the beach.
A bigger beach can attract more tourists.
Boulders are usually from outside the local area, so transport costs can be high.
Coastal management techniques - sand dune regeneration.
Choose the correct statement(s)
Areas of the beach have to be fenced off, prohibiting access.
Relatively cheap.
It maintains a natural coastal environment.
All of the statements are correct.
Which of the following distinctive landforms are formed primarily due to the process of deposition?
Headlands
Beaches
Spits
Bars
Longshore drift
Choose the statements which apply most appropriately to this process.
This is the process of erosion which moves sand and pebbles along the coast.
Material is moved along the coast in a zigzag way.
The backwash moves sediment straight back down the beach due to gravity.
Prevailing winds bring waves in at an angle to the coast.
Conditions required for a spit to form:
Material is transported along the coast by longshore drift.
When wave crests arrive parallel to the coastline.
There is a bend in the coastline or a river mouth occurs.
A plentiful supply of sediment.
Headlands and bays are most likely to be formed along which type of coast?
Discordant coasts
Coasts with impermeable rock
Concordant coasts
Coast with permeable rock
The area at the bottom of a cliff that destructive waves attack:
Above the high water mark.
Between the high and low water marks.
Below the low water mark.
The overhanging rock.
"The wearing away and removal of material by a moving force, such as a breaking wave" is which process?
Deposition
Erosion
Transportation
Weathering
