Mapping Skills
What does BOLTSS stand for?
Border, Orientation, Legend, Title, Scale and Source
What is the name of a vertical rock face along many coastlines?
A. Stack
B. Cave
C. Spit
D. Cliff
D. Cliff
What type of wave creates depositional landforms?
Constructive wave
What is coastal erosion?
Wearing away the coast by wind and water
Where is the equator?
What is a narrow, high land jutting out into the sea, formed of harder rock that resists erosion?
A. Beach
B. Desert
C. Headlands
D. Arch
C. Headlands
What landform is made of loose particles such as sand and pebbles deposited by waves?
Beach
What is coastal deposition?
Sediments being depositied to a new location that have been eroded away
How do we show 'Orientation' on a map?
Using an arrow with the north compass point
What is formed as waves bend around headlands and attack softer rock?
A. Stack
B. Caves
C. Arch
D. Sand Dunes
B. Caves
How are sand dunes formed?
They form at the back of beaches from wind blown sand
Does the water move up and down in a wave or side ways pushing forward to the shore?
Water moves up and down in a wave its the energy that carries the wave forward
Is Australia in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?
Southern
Which type of wave creates erosional landforms?
Destructive Waves
What is the name of narrow bars of deposited sand linked to the coast?
Spit
What two main things can cause a Tsunami?
Earthquake and Volcanic Eruption
What is the largest state in Australia?
Western Australia
Are arches formed from destructive waves or constructive waves?
Destructive
Fill in the gap -
T_ _ _ O_ _ S form when waves deposit a bar of sand to link an island to the coast.
Tombolos
What is the largest wave swell ever recorded?
60.3m, 23.8m, 10.5m or 43.1m
23.8m - at New Zealand's Campbell Island