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Quiz por Jamahl Khan, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Jamahl Khan
aproximadamente 10 anos atrás
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Questão 1
Questão
The coast is the narrow zone where the land and the sea overlap and directly interact.
Responda
- True
- False
Questão 2
Questão
How is the movement of water particles described?
Responda
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Longitudinal
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Relational
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Orbital
Questão 3
Questão
What is "fetch"?
Responda
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The distance sediment can be transported from one end of the beach to the other.
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The distance of open water over which wind can blow.
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The distance between the crests of successive wave fronts.
Questão 4
Questão
Which of the following are NOT processes?
Responda
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Wind
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Sand
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Erosion
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Biological
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Tombolo
Questão 5
Questão
Which wave type which breaks on a beach with a powerful swash and weaker backwash, moving material up the beach?
Responda
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Constructive
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Destructive
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Productive
Questão 6
Questão
What is backwash?
Responda
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The movement of water up the beach as the result of the breaking of waves
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Movement of water down the beach under gravitational pull after the wave has broken
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The small particles of food left in the bottle after you share your drink with a friend
Questão 7
Questão
What wave process is shown in the diagram?
Responda
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Wave diffraction
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Near-shore current
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Long-shore drift
Questão 8
Questão
How is wave length measured?
Responda
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The horizontal distance between the crests of two successive waves
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The vertical distance between the crest and trough
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The distance from one end of a wave to the other
Questão 9
Responda
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Cliff
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Wave-cut platform
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Notch
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Rocky headland
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Parallel dune system
Questão 10
Questão
What is a berm?
Responda
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A series of mini embayment’s
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Long narrow accumulations of sand projecting out to sea
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A horizontal or gently inclined area at the top of the beach
Questão 11
Responda
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A Tangelo
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A Toledo
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A Tombolo
Questão 12
Questão
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.
Responda
- True
- False
Questão 13
Questão
The following are part of which process: Uplifting, faulting, folding, volcanism
Responda
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Fluvial
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Tectonic
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Climatic
Questão 14
Questão
What type of interaction between the waves and the coast can clearly be seen in the picture?
Image:
refrac2 (image/jpg)
Responda
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Refraction
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Reflection
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Difraction
Questão 15
Questão
What is hydraulic pressure?
Responda
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Rocks and boulders already eroded from cliffs and broken down into smaller and more rounded particles
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The wearing away of cliffs by sand shingle and boulders hurled against them by waves
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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
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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
Questão 16
Questão
Waihi beach is an erosional beach
Responda
- True
- False
Questão 17
Questão
Tectonic processes during which two periods are largely responsible for coastal geology?
Responda
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Pleistocene and Holocene
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Cretaceous and Jurrasic
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Pliocene and Miocene
Questão 18
Questão
What are the THREE ways Aeolian processes transport sediment?
Responda
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Traction
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Saltation
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Surface creep
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Slumping
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Suspension
Questão 19
Questão
What is this structure called that is designed to help deposition and accumulation of sediment in the dunes?
Image:
DSCN0718.JPG (image/JPG)
Responda
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Hadrians Wall
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Rabbit Proof Fence
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Sand Trap
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The Wind Fence Thingy
Questão 20
Questão
What should you integrate in to all your answers?
Responda
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The concept of Interaction
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Case study evidence
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Knowledge of processes operate
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All of the above
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