GCSE Geography – Hard coastal management
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Question 1 of 25
1. Question
What is the term used to describe artificial, structures that are developed for protection against the sea?
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Question 2 of 25
2. Question
Exposed coastal rocks take a battering from which type of wave?
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Question 3 of 25
3. Question
What is a barrier between the sea and the land called?
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Question 4 of 25
4. Question
Which type of sea wall is more effective at reflecting waves and reducing overtopping?
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Question 5 of 25
5. Question
What is often added to a sea wall to give it extra stability?
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6. Question
The recurved face of a sea wall reflects the wave back out to sea. What does this do to the next wave?
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Question 7 of 25
7. Question
What is the term for a wooden or stone structure built into the sand, that looks like a fence or a wall?
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Question 8 of 25
8. Question
On which part of the beach are groynes situated?
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Question 9 of 25
9. Question
At what angle to the beach are groynes built.
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Question 10 of 25
10. Question
Approximately how far apart are groynes built?
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Question 11 of 25
11. Question
On which side of a groyne does sediment transported by longshore drift, build up?
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Question 12 of 25
12. Question
What other method of beach management is used in conjunction with groynes, to make them particularly effective?
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Question 13 of 25
13. Question
What type of beach is a more effective buffer as it absorbs the waves energy, reducing the impact of the waves upon the sea wall?
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Question 14 of 25
14. Question
What is the term for a steel wire-mesh cage that is filled with pebbles or rocks?
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Question 15 of 25
15. Question
What hard engineering method involves the use of thousands of tonnes of huge boulders, to act as barrier between the land and the sea?
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Question 16 of 25
16. Question
What is sometimes placed in front of a cliff to give it stability and reduce risk of landslides?
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Question 17 of 25
17. Question
What is term for a hard engineering structure that traps sediment, transported by longshore drift?
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Question 18 of 25
18. Question
Which of the following is NOT a type of hard engineering?
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Question 19 of 25
19. Question
What part of the sea wall rotates the wave backwards, so that some of its energy is reflected back out to sea?
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Question 20 of 25
20. Question
What is another name for rock armour?
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Question 21 of 25
21. Question
What type of material is used in rock armour?
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Question 22 of 25
22. Question
What is the broad term for the replacement of lost sediment on beach?
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Question 23 of 25
23. Question
What is the term that describes the controlled retreat of the coastline?
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24. Question
What type of hard engineering will eventually become vegetated and merge into the landscape?
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Question 25 of 25
25. Question
Which type of hard engineering may disrupt longshore drift starving beaches further along the coast of sediment?
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