Geography - Coastal Landforms and Waves

A scenic coastal landscape featuring waves crashing against cliffs, a sandy beach, and coastal landforms like a headland and a spit, in bright sunlight

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
15 Questions4 MinutesCreated by WavingWave12
The length of water the wind blows over is called its...
Fetch
Catch
Throw
The rise and fall of the sea gives us...
Rocks
Sand
Tides
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
When waves carry eroded material away from the shore it is know as...
Turnpike
Transition
Transport
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
What do many seaside towns build to stop beaches being carried away?
Grants
Gails
Groynes
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.
When a cave gets eroded all of the way through it turns into a...
Stump
Arch
Drift
When longshore drift is interrupted and a sheltered bay is formed, what landform is often also created from deposited sand and shingle?
A spit
A sparrow
A spark
Eroded material that is deposited in sheltered areas will form a...
Branch
Beach
Banjo
Wind dragging on the surface of the water causes...
Waves
Walls
Wallows
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