Erosion on the Coast

KS3 Coasts and coastal erosion quiz based on a study of The Holderness Coast.
What A is where sand and stones scrape the bed?. What A is where rocks and stones knock together and wear each other away?. What H is where water is forced into cracks in the cliffs?. What S is common in clay cliffs?. What L is the way in which thousands of tonnes of pebbles and sand get moved along the coastline?. What G is built to help prevent beaches being carried away?. What S is a strip of sand or shingle in the sea?. What S is made from large blocks of concrete to stop the waves reaching the land?. What S is a collapsed arch?. What E is the wearing away of rock, stones and soil by rivers, waves and wind?. What C is formed when a crack in a cliff is enlarged by erosion?. What A is formed when a cave has been eroded all the way through?. What S is materials dissolved in water?. What D happens to form a beach?. What R is used to help soak up the waves energy?. What H is one of Europe's fastest eroding coastlines?. What S is a place on the Holderness Coast formed by longshore Drift?. What C is a very fine-grained soil found on the Holderness Coast that is easily eroded?. What B is formed by deposition along the coast?. What C is a very steep, or overhanging face of a rock outcrop?.

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