Sediment transport and deposition creates coastal landforms and landscapes (Edexcel A-Level Geography): Quizzes
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Which sediment transport process moves pebbles, cobbles and boulders along the shoreline?
Which sediment transport process moves pebbles, cobbles and boulders along the shoreline?
Traction
Which type of particles are transported by saltation?
Which type of particles are transported by saltation?
Sand
In longshore drift, at what angle does backwash move down the beach?
In longshore drift, at what angle does backwash move down the beach?
At right angles to the beach
What is flocculation?
What is flocculation?
Particles clump & sink due to attraction
Which process creates spits?
Which process creates spits?
Longshore drift
What is a tombolo?
What is a tombolo?
A spit joining mainland to an island
What feature forms behind a barrier beach?
What feature forms behind a barrier beach?
A lagoon
What causes the hook at the end of a hooked spit?
What causes the hook at the end of a hooked spit?
A secondary prevailing wind
What conditions form a cuspate foreland?
What conditions form a cuspate foreland?
Two dominant wind & wave patterns
What three components make up a sediment cell?
What three components make up a sediment cell?
Sources, transfers and sinks