IGCSE 9th Coastal Geography Quiz

What is the point of contact between land and sea called?

• Fetch

• Coastline

• Tides

• Swash

What is the distance the wind has blown over the sea called?

• Erosion

• Tides

• Fetch

• Wave Energy

______ is strategies and actions implemented to protect and manage coastlines, including the use of sea defenses and natural processes.

• Soft engineering

• Coastal Management

• Hard Engineering

What is the special kind of wave generated by the movement and gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun called?

• Tides

• Wave Frequency

• Transportation

• Erosion

What is the movement of water and laid up the beach called?

• Backwash

• Swash

• Tides

• Wave Frequency

What is the wearing away of rock and soil along the coastline called?

• Shingle

• Deposition

• Transportation

• Erosion

What is the collective term for pebbles called?

• Transportation

• Erosion

• Shingle

• Deposition

What is the movement of water sweeping down the beach and back toward the sea after a wave breaks called?

• Wave Frequency

• Erosion

• Swash

• Backwash

What is the amount of waves passing a particular point or crashing onto a beach over a predetermined period of time called?

• Wave Energy

• Transportation

• Wave Frequency

• Erosion

What is the area of rock exposed at low tide following the erosion of cliffs called?

• Wave Cut Notch

• Stacks and Stumps

• Wave Cut Platform

• Sub Aerial Processes