Geography - Coastal Landforms and Waves
Coastal Landforms and Waves Quiz
Test your knowledge of coastal geography with this interactive quiz! Discover how waves shape coastlines and explore key coastal landforms.
- Learn about tides, erosion, and longshore drift
- Understand the impact of waves on coastal environments
- Challenge yourself with multiple-choice questions
When a wave goes up and down a beach it is known as the...
Swash and Backwash
Swish and Backwash
Swash and Backburner
Waves shape the coastline in three main ways:
Erode, Deposit and Transport
Erode, Deliver and Transport
Erode, Deliver and Transfer
What is the correct term for when water is forced into cracks in the rock which helps to break them up?
Hydro action
Hydraulic action
Hummer action
The erosion process of sand and pebbles wearing the rock away after being flung against it is known as...
Abrasion
Astrovasion
Abruptness
What is Longshore Drift?
The process of material (pebbles and sand) gettign moved along a coastline every year.
The current of the sea
The measurement of the size of a wave
During the erosion of a cliff, what type of platform is left at the base of a cliff?
Wave-cut platform
Wave-forming platform
Wave-redundant platform
What is a headland?
What is formed when hard rock erodes more slowly than soft rock and the cliff sticks out.
A place where lots of sand forms
The material eroded from a cliff that is trasnported along the coast.
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