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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
When do constructive waves deposit sediment?
During their weak backwash
During their strong swash
During their weak swash
During their strong backwash
(a) waves create offshore bars.
What type of dip is most vulnerable to landslides?
Seaward high
Seaward low
Horizontal
Landward
Name one of the pioneer species in a halosere succession.
(a)
Which of these are not an example of a transfer in a sediment cell?
Swash
Backwash
River transportation
Wind (aeolian)
Which rock type can be formed intrusively and extrusively?
Igneous
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
What is the name of the process that sediment undergoes to create sedimentary rock?
(a)
A secondary coast is a coast where...
Sea levels are rising
Marine processes dominate
Land processes dominate
Tides are always mesotidal
Define 'holocene'
(a)
What rock type makes up the headlands around Bantry Bay?
Old Devonian red sandstone
Carboniferous limestone
Wealden clay
Portland limestone
What are fissures?
A pioneer species
Small joints
Faults that have been eroded
Small weaknesses in a rock
Limestone has a binding agent of (a) which dissolves when in contact with rainwater, which is a weak carbonic acid.
The highest angle that can be reached by a cliff before mass movement occurs is called the angle of...
(a)
Select the types of mechanical weathering.
Oxidation
Freeze-thaw
Rock boring
Salt crystallisation
Carbonation
Select the types of biological weathering.
Freeze-thaw
Oxidation
Hydrolysis
Rock boring
Plant roots
Topple is most likely when the dip is...
Seaward high
Seaward low
Horizontal
Landward
Name the 5 stages of psammosere succesion (in order)
(a)
How much has the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta subsided since 1960?
1.6m
16m
1.5m
15m
When did the Devensian glacial period end?
33,000 years ago
1.1 million years ago
11,000 years ago
22,000 years ago
Which of the following rock types are present at Lulworth Cove?
Portland limestone
Purbeck limestone
Carboniferous limestone
Wealden clay
Old Devonian red sandstone
What kind of dip is along this coastline?
Seaward high
Seaward low
Horizontal
Landward
At a (a) -aligned coast, waves approach at an angle
At a (a) -aligned coast, the waves break parallel to the coast
Name a type of mass movement
(a)
