Coastal processes

Which of the following is not an input source for sediment cells:

• Offshore bars

• Fluvial sediment

• Estuary

• Beach erosion

The movement of water up the beach after the breaking of a wave is called the:

• Backwash

• Swash

• Breaker

• Wave

Eustatic sea level increase occurs with the melting of sea ice.

• True

• False

The annotation best explains which coastal erosional process?

• Attrition

• Abrasion

• Hydraulic action

• Corrosion

Areas of former wave-cut platforms which are at a higher level

than the present sea level is which feature?

• Relict cliffs

• Fossil sea cave

• Raised beaches

• Ria

A coastline which has a falling sea level is called:

• Submergent

• Emergent

• Drowned

• Isostatic

Which key term goes with the definition 'The wearing away and removal of material by a moving force, such as a breaking wave. '

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Transportation

• Fetch

Which process of transport bounces material in a 'leap-frogging' motion?

• Traction

• Saltation

• Solution

• Suspension

Which key term goes with the definition 'material being transported by the sea is dropped due to the sea losing energy.'

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Hydraulic action

Sub-aerial process occur:

• On land

• In the sea

• In the swash zone

• On the foreshore