Coastal Geography Quiz

What are the three main types of weathering?

What is the process of erosion called when sea water has a chemical effect on a cliff.

What is hydraulic action?

Give three characteristics of destructive waves.

What is longshore drift?

What two factors are needed to create a spit?

Give three coastal erosion landforms.

Which of these are erosion processes?

• Weathering

• corrosion

• Hydraulic action

• Longshore drift

• Abrasion

What does the term 'geology' mean?

Give two factors that will accelerate the rate of erosion along the coastline.