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Coastal landforms and processes
Test your knowledge of coastal landforms and processses with this 15-question GCSE quiz.
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QUIZZES // Coastal landforms and processes quiz
Q1. What is the correct definition of geomorphic processes?
Processes that naturally change the shape of the land, including erosion, weathering and deposition
The movement of sediment along a beach
When soluble particles are dissolved by seawater
When pieces of rock bash into each other and become smaller, smoother and more rounded
Q2. What is the fetch?
When water flows back down the beach into the sea
When the swash is greater than the backwash
The distance of ocean over which the prevailing wind blows
Destructive waves
Q3. What are the two types of waves?
Swash and backwash
Longshore and drift
Abrasion and attrition
Constructive and destructive
Q4. Which of the following statements about longshore drift is true?
The swash occurs in the same direction as the prevailing wind direction
The swash moves at right angles
Gravity determines the swash
The direction of longshore drift is the same direction as the backwash
Q5. The four types of coastal erosion are…
…swash, backwash, constructive and destructive
…hydraulic action, attrition, abrasion and solution
…physical, biological, chemical and mechanical
…cave, arch, stack and stump
Q6. Which is the correct definition of hydraulic action?
When pieces of rock bash into each other, becoming smaller, smoother and more rounded
When pieces of rock and sand wear away the cliffs like sandpaper
When soluble particles are dissolved by seawater
When water forces air into cracks in the rock, causing pieces to break away
Q7. Abrasion occurs when…
…seawater forces air into cracks in the rock and causes pieces to break away
…soluble particles of rock are dissolved by seawater
...pieces of rock and sand wear away cliffs like sandpaper
…pieces of rock bash into each other, becoming smaller, smoother and more rounded
Q8. Bays and headlands form when…
…there are different amounts of constructive and destructive waves
…bands of harder and softer rock are present along a coastline
…the cliffs are prone to different amounts of sliding and slumping
…different amounts of swash and backwash occur on a beach
Q9. What is the best description of a wave-cut platform?
A wide, gently sloping rock surface where cliff retreat has occurred
The distance of ocean over which the prevailing wind blows
A tall column of rock left when an arch collapses
A notch at the base of a cliff that has been eroded by the sea
Q10. What is freeze-thaw weathering?
Where plant/tree roots break up the rock
The chemical breakdown of rocks by acidic sea and rain water
The rotational mass movement of sediment on a cliff
When water gets into cracks, freezes and expands, and breaks up the rock over time
Q11. Which of these are types of mass movement?
Arches and stacks
Biological and mechanical
Slides and slumps
Constructive and destructive
Q12. What is the usual sequence of headland erosion?
Crack > Cave > Arch > Stump > Stack
Stack > Crack > Arch > Stump > Cave
Stump > Stack > Arch > Cave > Crack
Crack > Cave > Arch > Stack > Stump
Q13. What kind of coastal landform is ‘Old Harry’?
A cave
A stack
An arch
A beach
Q14. Only one of these statements about headland erosion is true. Which is it?
When an arch collapses, it leaves a stack
Headlands are made from bands of soft rock
Caves erode further to become faults
When a stump collapses, it leaves a stack
Q15. Which of these is an example of a headland?
The Azure Window
The Twelve Apostles
Old Harry’s Wife
Flamborough Head
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