Tyoes Of Coastlines

Question 1

What are the two types of coastlines

Answer 1

Submergent

Emergent

Question 2

What is a submergent coastline

Answer 2

Has a rising sea level

Question 3

What is an emergent coastline

Answer 3

Has a falling sea level

Question 4

What landforms are formed by submergence

Answer 4

Rias

Fjords

Dalmatian coastline

Question 5

What landforms are formed by emergence

Answer 5

Raised beach’s

Marine platforms

Question 6

What is a rias

Answer 6

A landform which is often referred to as a drowned river valley

are almost always estuaries

Form when valleys previously at sea level become submerged

They are wide and deep at the mouth and become narrower and shallower further inland

Question 7

What is a fjord

Answer 7

A glaciated U-shaped valley that is filled by rising sea water levels

narrow indent with steep sides

Have shallow mouths formed by deposited material from the glaciers

Question 8

What are Dalmatian coasts

Answer 8

Croatia

Longitudinal coasts that undergo submergence

Where valleys lay parallel to the coast, they are flooded by rising sea levels

Question 9

What are raised beaches

Answer 9

Areas of land or other types of beach deposits that are found high above the current beach

Question 10

What are marine platforms

Answer 10

Are wave cut platforms that are higher then the sea level