Coasts mid-point quiz

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Mid-point quiz for the Cracking Coasts topic

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What is your class name and teacher's name? *

What is the correct definition for the coastal zone? *

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A large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another river

The narrow stretch between the land and the sea.

A very large expanse of sea, in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically.

A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.

True or False: A beach berm can be found offshore in the coastal zone diagram. *

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True

False

What causes waves? *

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Sunlight warming the ocean.

Wind dragging on the surface of the water.

The movement of animals within the ocean.

The pull of the moon.

What do you call the length of water the wind blows over? *

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The swash

The backwash

The fetch

The uprush

If the swash has more energy than the backwash, what happens? *

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The waves eat at the land, drawing pebbles and sand away.

Material is carried onto the land and left there. Over time, material builds up to create a beach.

It causes the rise and fall of the sea.

It leads to a change in sea level.

If the backwash has more energy than the swash, what happens? *

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The waves eat at the land, drawing pebbles and sand away.

Material is carried onto the land and left there. Over time, material builds up to create a beach.

It causes the rise and fall of the sea.

It leads to a change in sea level.

What do waves do to the coast? *

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They wear away or erode the coast.

They carry away or transport eroded material.

They drop or deposit transported material in sheltered areas where they lose energy.

All of the above.

Waves erode (wear away) the coast using which of the following processes? *

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longshore drift, deposition, swash, and backwash

hydraulic action, attrition, solution, and abrasion

low tide, high tide, uprush, and tidal range.

Complete the sentence: ________ ________ is when waves force water into cracks in the rock, causing it to break up. *

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Attrition

Abrasion

Solution

Hydraulic Action

True or False: Solution is when waves dissolve soluble material from the rock. *

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True

False

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