The coast is the narrow zone where the land and the sea overlap and directly interact.
How is the movement of water particles described?
Longitudinal
Relational
Orbital
What is "fetch"?
The distance sediment can be transported from one end of the beach to the other.
The distance of open water over which wind can blow.
The distance between the crests of successive wave fronts.
Which of the following are NOT processes?
Wind
Sand
Erosion
Biological
Tombolo
Which wave type which breaks on a beach with a powerful swash and weaker backwash, moving material up the beach?
Constructive
Destructive
Productive
What is backwash?
The movement of water up the beach as the result of the breaking of waves
Movement of water down the beach under gravitational pull after the wave has broken
The small particles of food left in the bottle after you share your drink with a friend
What wave process is shown in the diagram?
Wave diffraction
Near-shore current
Long-shore drift
How is wave length measured?
The horizontal distance between the crests of two successive waves
The vertical distance between the crest and trough
The distance from one end of a wave to the other
What features are shown in this diagram?
Cliff
Wave-cut platform
Notch
Rocky headland
Parallel dune system
What is a berm?
A series of mini embayment’s
Long narrow accumulations of sand projecting out to sea
A horizontal or gently inclined area at the top of the beach
What is this major feature of Waihi called?
A Tangelo
A Toledo
A Tombolo
The rate of coastal erosion depends on the profile of the coast, resistance and slope of rocks, width of beach and shore, nature of beach deposits, depth of water offshore, and the tidal range.
The following are part of which process: Uplifting, faulting, folding, volcanism
Fluvial
Tectonic
Climatic
What type of interaction between the waves and the coast can clearly be seen in the picture?
Refraction
Reflection
Difraction
What is hydraulic pressure?
Rocks and boulders already eroded from cliffs and broken down into smaller and more rounded particles
The wearing away of cliffs by sand shingle and boulders hurled against them by waves
The dissolving of limestone by the carbonic acid in sea water and the evaporation of slats to reproduce crystals which expand as they form and cause the rock to disintegrate
When a parcel of air is trapped and compressed with in a joint in a cliff or between a breaking wave and a cliff - the increase in pressure may over a period of time waken and break off pieces of rock
Waihi beach is an erosional beach
Tectonic processes during which two periods are largely responsible for coastal geology?
Pleistocene and Holocene
Cretaceous and Jurrasic
Pliocene and Miocene
What are the THREE ways Aeolian processes transport sediment?
Traction
Saltation
Surface creep
Slumping
Suspension
What is this structure called that is designed to help deposition and accumulation of sediment in the dunes?
Hadrians Wall
Rabbit Proof Fence
Sand Trap
The Wind Fence Thingy
What should you integrate in to all your answers?
The concept of Interaction
Case study evidence
Knowledge of processes operate
All of the above
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