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Unit 2.3 Coasts IGCSE

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is this landform?
a)
Spit
b)
Sand dune
c)
Stack
d)
Stump
2.
Which is a landform of coastal erosion?
a)
Stack
b)
Spit
c)
Sand Dune
d)
Bar
3.
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
4.
What is the first stage in a stack formation?
a)
Arch is formed
b)
Cave is formed
c)
Line of weakness in rock
d)
Stump is formed
5.
I am the type of erosion where sediment scrapes against the headland. What am I?
a)
Attrition
b)
Hydraulic action
c)
Solution
d)
Abrasion
6.
I happen when the waves don't have enough energy to carry sediment
a)
Deposition
b)
Erosion
c)
Swash
d)
Backwash
7.
I transport material along a beach. What am I.
a)
Longshore Drift
b)
Longshape Drift
c)
Longnose Drift
d)
Longway drift
8.
I am the forward motion of waves
a)
Backwash
b)
Swash
9.
What ecosystem forms behind a spit?
a)
Sand Dune
b)
Salt Marsh
c)
Coral Reef
d)
Mangrove
10.
What ecosystem forms behind a spit?
a)
Sand Dune
b)
Salt Marsh
c)
Coral Reef
d)
Mangrove
11.
What is not a condition for sand dunes to form?
a)
Sediment Supply
b)
Strong wind
c)
An obstacle
d)
No tide
12.

Identify this landform

a)

Spit

b)

Bar

c)

Tombolo

d)

Barrier beach

13.

Identify this landform

a)

Ria

b)

Fjord

c)

Rio

d)

Fiord

14.
The maximum distance a wave can have travelled from is called the….
a)
Fetch
b)
Drift
c)
Draft
d)
Swell
15.
Which of these is a landform of erosion?
a)
Bar
b)
Spit
c)
Bay
d)
Salt-marsh
16.
When pebbles on a beach smash together and round erode each other smaller and rounder, this is called….
a)
Abrasion
b)
Corrosion
c)
Attrition
d)
Hydraulic action
17.
When the seawater reacts chemically with the cliffs and they are thus eroded, this is called…..
a)
Abrasion
b)
Corrosion
c)
Attrition
d)
Hydraulic action
18.

Longshore drift is…..

a)

A transportation process

b)

The least exciting geographical concept of all time

c)

Overexamined

d)

Just the most crazy thing ever

19.
The movement of breaking wave energy UP a beach is called….
a)
Swash
b)
Swish
c)
Swatch
d)
Switch
20.
What is this landform?
a)
Arch
b)
Cave
c)
Headland
d)
Wave-cut Platform
21.

Which erodes quicker?

a)

Harder rock

b)

Softer rock

22.
This is a
a)
Headland
b)
Stack
c)
Arch
d)
Bay
23.
This is a
a)
Headland
b)
Stack
c)
Arch
d)
Bay
24.
Where is the Great Barrier Reef located?
a)
Puerto Rico
b)
Florida
c)
Indonisia
d)
Australia
25.
A ringed shaped reef
a)
fringing reef
b)
barrier reef
c)
atoll
d)
archipelago 
26.
Coral larvae become a __________.
a)
polyp
b)
hard coral
c)
soft coral
d)
reef
27.
What is the hard structure that provides the foundation for the reef?
a)
limestone
b)
sandstone
c)
concrete
d)
granite
28.

A type of reef that lies close to the shore.

a)

fringing reef

b)

barrier reef

c)

atoll

d)

archipelago

29.

A reef running parallel to the shore but separated from it by a channel of deep water.

a)

fringing reef

b)

barrier reef

c)

atoll

d)

archipelago

30.

How can Mangroves stand still in the waves?

a)

By their roots

b)

By their stem

c)

By their leaves

31.

What photos are the Mangroves tree?

a)
b)
c)
d)
32.

Salinity means the level of _______________in the water.

a)

oxygen

b)

salt

c)

nitrogen

d)

salcite

33.

Which of the following is not part of the harsh environments mangroves endure

a)

High salt

b)

Hard ground

c)

Low oxygen

d)

Varying Tides

34.

Which of the following is not an adaptation of mangroves

a)

Aerial roots

b)

Buttress roots

c)

Open stomata

d)

salt glands

35.
Mangroves provide a _________________________for small fish before they swim out to the deeper ocean.
a)
Safe breeding ground
b)
Fresh water system
36.
Mangroves protect coastlines from erosion by acting as a natural barrier and flood defence. True or false?
a)
True
b)
False

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