Starter quiz

  • Which of these are advantages to being a maritime nation?
    • natural defence - can help protect from invasion  ✓
    • isolation from other countries
    • provides food (fishing)  ✓
    • it is harder/more expensive to transport items to and from other countries
  • A coast is a strip of land made of rock, sand, mud or gravel, that meets the...
    • 'sea' ✓
  • The UK is surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, Irish Sea, and the...
    • Pacific Ocean
    • Scottish Channel
    • English Channel  ✓
  • Order the processes that form a spit.
    Order the processes that form a spit.
    • 1
      Sediment is carried by longshore drift.
    • 2
      When the waves meet a change in direction of the coastline they lose energy.
    • 3
      The transported material is deposited.
  • Sometimes a spit grows across a bay joining two ______. This is called a bar.
    • headlads  ✓
    • bars
    • beaches
  • What forms behind a bar?
    What forms behind a bar?
    • saltmarch
    • spit
    • lagoon  ✓
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