AQA A Level Coasts

Subaerial processes include

• Weathering and erosion

• Weathering and mass movement

• Mass movement and erosion

• Solifluction and wave quarrying

Which is the weathering process

• Oxidation

• Wave quarrying

• Attrition

• Solifluction

The area between high tide mark and low tide mark is known as the...

• Offshore

• Inshore

• Foreshore

• Backshore

The most common wind in a coastal zone is known as the....

• Fetch

• Prevailing wind

• Gulf stream

• Swash

Which is the feature of a destructive wave?

• Short wavelength

• Low wave frequency

• Low wave height

• Weak swash

Which is the 'bouncing' action of transportation by the sea?

• Traction

• Saltation

• Suspension

• Solution

Which is the example of chemical weathering?

• Freeze thaw

• Onion skin

• Carbonation

• Pressure release

Which mass movement process involves rocks moving as solid pieces rather than as a softer mass?

• Rotational slip

• Landslide

• Rockfall

• Soil creep

Which is the feature of erosion?

• Berm

• Bar

• Tombolo

• Geo

Lithosphere is rock and Psammosere is sand - what is salt marsh seral succession called?

• Halosere

• Salisere

• Hydrosere

• Psaltosere