1. What type of coastline has sea caves, blowholes, sea arches and sea stacks?
2.What percentage of the United States coastline is depositional coastlinesand what percentage is erosional?
3. What type of reef is a ring-shaped island of coral with a lagoon at its center? What are the other two stages of coral reef formations? How would you define them?
4. Which of the coral formations represents the youngest stage in coral evolution?
5. Seawalls increase the amount of erosion or deposition along the shore because they deflect wave energy.
6. Are high energy coasts erosional or depositional?
7. What is the longshore current and how does it impact sediment?
8.Berms, berm crests, and longshore bars are all features of what type of coastline?
9. On beaches like Boomers beach in La Jolla, what happens to the sediment along the beach during the winter versus the summer?
10. Define shore and coast.
11. In a coastal cell, how is sand permanently lost from the beach?
12. An estuary described as a long, narrow, steep-sided, flooded coastal valley is called what?
13What are the definitions of the three other estuary types?
14. How long has global long term sea level has been rising?
15. What type of depositional coastal feature are described as exposed sandbars that are parallel to the coast, and form when sediments accumulate on submerged rises paralleling the shoreline.What is a sandspit?
16. Modern tsunami warning systems depend on what technology?
17. What is the name for a relatively old coast that is steadily growing due to their sediment accumulation?
18. What factorsare instrumental in shaping an erosional coast?