GEOGRAPHY TEST: COASTAL FEATURES

Name: ……………………………….
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Date: ……../March 2017
Teacher: T. Anna

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (Circle)

1. What is sustainable management in beaches?

a. Beaches are protected from people, who are subsequently stopped from damaging the beach.
b. The use of the beach by people while not endangering them for future generations to use.
c. The use of sea walls or even old cars to protect houses of the shore.

2. Which is the correct order for the formation of a stump?

a. Stack, arch cave, stump
b. Cave, arch, pillar, stump
c. Crack, pillar, arch, stump

3. What is longshore drift?

a. A process of erosion
b. A process of deposition
c. A process of transportation

4. What is cliff retreat?

a. When cliffs move towards the sea due to deposition
b. When cliffs move further away from the sea over time
c. When cliffs erode to create a shoreline further back in land than before
d. All of the above are correct

5. What statement is correct?

a. Swash usually approaches the beach at right angles
b. Backwash usually leaves the beach at right angles
c. Swash and backwash always approach the beach at the same angles.
6. Which of the following in NOT formed by deposition
a. A bar
b. A sand dunes
c. A beach
d. A rocky platform

7. Which statement is not true concerning dune vegetation?

a. The vegetation in the backdunes have adaptations to help them dry with dry and salty conditions
b. Spinifex and Marram grass are often the first species to colonize the fordune
c. Sand dunes are a barrier to erosive waves
d. None of the above are true
e. All of the above are true

8. Which is true about longshore drift?

a. It is seasonal
b. It can be completely stopped with various man-made methods
c. The direction of longshore drift depends on the direction of the wind and waves
d. Both a) and c) are true
e. Both a) and b) are true
f. Both b) and c) are true

9. What is true about headlands?

a. They are a process of both erosion and deposition due to the force of waves both in the swash and
backwash
b. They are more exposed and therefore more under attack by the energy of waves
c. They are composed of soft rock and therefore are easily eroded by the force of destructive waves

10. What is true about beach renourishment?

a. It has a low environmental impact at the beach
b. It traps sand and maintains the beach
c. Prevents further erosion of the beach and dune area, protecting buildings on the shore

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Use the word bank to fill in the blanks

Spit Groyne(s) Coastal erosion Bar

Spit Offshore breakwater Wave-cut notch Bar
Beach renourishment Offshore breakwater Longshore drift Wave-cut platform
Erosion Lagoon Cliff(s) Wave(s)
Sea wall Tombolo Cliff(s) Sand

Cliff Erosion and Wave-cut Platform

…………1……………… attack the base of the ……………2……………… through the process of

……………3………………… Over time the …………4……………… will be undercut and a …………
5……………… is then formed. As the cliff retreats further back, a …………6……………… is formed.

Features of deposition

A …………1……………… is a long, narrow ridge of deposited material (such as …………2………………)

that extends from the mainland into the sea. Materials are deposited through the the process
of ……………3………………………. . When the ……………4…………… is connected to an island it is called
a …………5……………….. . When it connects two headlands it is called a …………6……………… . The
…………7……………… traps water creating a ………8………………… .

Solutions

In order to slow down the process of …………………………. and longshore drift, artificial
placement of sand can be spread over the beach. This is called …………………………. . Another
solution would be to trap sand with the use of either wooden or concrete ………………………….
along the beach. Another solution is to build …………………………., which are placed parallel to
the shore in around 10 meters of water, this prevents waves from breaking too close to
shore to avoid erosion of the shore. A …………………………. could help prevent the erosion of
the dunes, much like the …………………………., it is also parallel to the shore, but this time on
the beach and not in the water.
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 ANSWER TWO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

(You do not need to answer one of the questions)

1. Explain how bays and headlands are formed:

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2. Why are coasts so important to the villages around it? How could longshore
drift be a problem to that?
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3. Explain how sand dunes are formed and how they protect from erosion .

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