Geo Term 3 Revision

___________ is a man-made coastal landform.

• Palm Jumeirah

• Stack

• Bay

• Island

________________ occur twice a month when the sun and moon are both on the same side of the earth.

• Ordinary Tide

• spring tides

• Low tide

• High tide

A semi-enclosed area where fresh water from a river meets salty water from the sea.

• Beach

• Ocean

• Estuary

The highest part of a wave is known as the ____________ and the lowest part is called a _________________.

• Crest and Trough

• Trough and Crest

• Swash and back wash

The port of _____________ is the world’s largest man- made harbor and the biggest port in the Middle East.

• Rashid

• Jebel Ali

• Hamriya

• Sharjah

When the water from the waves starts to run back down the beach pulling beach material towards the sea, that is ________________

• backwash

• swash

• crest

• estuary

________________ is the movement of air, or water in a particular directions.

• Tide

• Wave

• Current

The wearing away of land and the removal of beach or dune sediments by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents is called as ________

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Erosion

• Coastal

It is the section of a cliff that are made of hard rock which takes longer time to erode.

• Bay

• Headland

• Blow hole

• stump

When the sea loses energy, it drops the sand, rock particles and pebbles it has been carrying. This is called ___________.

• deposition

• Coastal Erosion

• Transportation