WorksheetsHolderness Coastline
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is the most northern Point on the Holderness Coastline?
Spurn Point
Flamborough Head
Gibralta Point
Lizard Point
Approximately how much farmland is being lost, on average, from the Holderness Coastline, each year?
800m2
8,000m2
80,000m2
800,000m2
Fill in the gap:
(a) Gas Terminal is found at the southern end of the Holderness Coast and is protected by a revetment.
The Environment Agency have produced an 81 page what, which details the management strategies found along the Holderness Coastline?
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) plan
Shoreline Management Plan (SMP)
Hard Engineering Plan
Soft Engineering Plan
What type of sea defences can be found at Bridlington?
gabions
revetment
sea wall and timber groynes
sea wall, rip rap and groynes
Near which village on the Holderness Coast is this sea defence found?
Hornsea
Skipsea
Mappleton
Withernsea
The spit at the southern end of the Holderness Coast is called _________ ________.
(a)
What major landform is found at Bridlington?
Stack
Beach
Spit
Wave-cut platform
What type of mass movement does the area from Bridlington to Spurn Head particularly suffer from?
Rock falls
Landslides
Soil Creep
Rotational Slumping
What rock type are the cliffs from Bridlington to Spurn Point made from?
Chalk
Limestone
Clay
Boulder Clay
What landform(s) are found at Flamborough Head?
Stack
Wave-Cut Platform
Arch
All of the above
What number of villages are thought to have been lost to the sea along the Holderness Coast since Roman times?
25
27
29
31
