Coastal Deposition Landforms Quiz

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What is coastal deposition?

Deposition is when material that is being transported is dropped by constructive waves. It happens because waves have less energy.

Deposition is the wearing away of the land by the sea.

Deposition is when material is transported by the sea.

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Which of the following is not an example of a landform of coastal deposition?

Bar

Ridge and runnel

Off-shore bar

Wave-cut platform

Spit

Beach

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Identify the landform of coastal deposition.

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Ridge and runnel

Off-shore bar

Spit

Bar

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Identify the landform of coastal deposition.

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Ridge and runnel

Beach

Bar

Off-shore bar

Spit

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Identify the landform of coastal deposition.

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Bar

Beach

Spit

Ridge and runnel

Off-shore bar

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True or false? Visible offshore bars, found in parallel to the coast are known as barrier islands.

False

True

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What often forms on the land-side of a coastal bar?

Lagoon

Berm

Spit

Beach

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Identify the landform of coastal deposition.

Salthouse Beach - a steep shingle beach with a series of berms.

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Off-shore bar

Ridge and runnel

Berm

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The image shows Chesil Beach on the Dorset Coast. Identify the type of wave responsible for this beach profile.

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Destructive

Constructive

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The plunging nature of destructive waves, along with their stronger backwash, means that pebbles are not moved far up the beach, which makes the beach profile steep.

Look at the image above. Are the features appropriately labelled?

Ridge and runnels on Harlech beach, North Wales.

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Yes

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Identify the landform created where a spit grows across a bay.

sand dune

beach

spit

bar

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What term is used to identify the zone of deposited material that extends from the low water line to the limit of storm waves and can be divided in the foreshore and the backshore?

bar

sand dune

beach

spit

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What is the common name for a coastal sand hill above the high tide mark, shaped by wind action, covered with grasses and shrubs?

bar

sand dune

spit

beach

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What term is used to identify a depositional landform formed when a finger of sediment extends from the shore out to sea, often at a river mouth. It usually has a curved end because of opposing winds and currents?

sand dune

spit

bar

beach

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