Unit 1: People and the Physical World: Coasts - Coastal Management Quiz
St Ivo School Geography Department Coastal Management Multiple Choice Quiz
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What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Revetments
- Gabions
- Sea Wall
- Beach Nourishment
What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Rock Armour (Rip rap)
- Gabions
- Revetment
- Sea Wall
What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Gabions
- Groynes
- Beach
- Sea Wall
What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Groynes
- Gabions
- Sand Dunes
- Rock Armour
What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Gabions
- Recurved Sea Wall
- Revetments
- Beach replenishment
What is the name of the coastal management feature shown?

- Sand Dunes
- Gabions
- Rock armour
- Revetments
What are Groynes?
- long wooden features built out into the sea to trap beach material
- boulders wired together in cages to dissipate wave energy
- large boulders on the beach to absorb wave energy
- Long walls designed to reflect wave energy
What is beach nourishment?
- Where beach material has been dredged from the sea
- Where new sand dunes have been created
- Where groynes are added to a beach
- Where marram grass is planted
What do revetments do?
- break the force of the wave and trap beach material behind them to protect the base of a cliff
- stop longshore drift and build up a beach
- deflect wave energy
- replace beach material
Which of these techniques is a soft form of coastal management engineering?
- Gabions
- Sand Dunes and marram grass
- Revetments
- Recurved sea wall
What problems can groynes cause?
- Increase the amount of sand deposited further up the coast
- Encourage sand to be deposited building up a beach
- Stop longshore drift supplying beaches further down the coast with material
- Cause pollution
Which of these is a hard engineering technique against coastal erosion?
- Re-curved sea wall
- Salt Marsh
- Sand dunes and marram grass
- Beach nourishment