Practice Quiz for Exam 1 continued. . .
Are ancient and are a result of its time of formaiton.
Change over time as plates interact.
Have matured slowly from an intial state to a climax condition.
Are unchanging over long periods of time.
Very narrow.
Much lower.
Very wide.
None of these.
Plate tectonic setting.
Age of shoreline.
Beahes and dunes.
Maturity of the shoreline.
Presence or absence of beaches.
It is becoming tectonically active.
It is a Neo-type trailing edge coast.
It was glaciated.
None of these.
No one knows.
Well stratified.
Rocky.
Relatively fresh.
Well mixed.
None of these.
Flooding.
Subsidence.
Meandering.
Crevasse splays.
None of these.
Asia
Africa
North America
Australia
Siberia
In Arctic regions.
In areas with small tidal ranges.
In areas with large tidal ranges.
Where granite is common.
Behind sandy beaches.
Massachusetts.
Maine
California
None of these places.
Prevent armoring of bluffs.
Say nothing of armoring bluffs.
Provide flood insurance to properties on bluffs.
Require that homeowners on eroding bluffs move back.
Building armoring of bluffs.
Creating a new environment to slow erosion.
Living with the problem (doing nothing)
Moving your house.
None of these.
Rarely, if ever, escapes from estuaries.
Rapidly fills estuaries.
Escapes from estuaries to build deltas on the continental shelf.
Does nto enter estuaries.
Require houses built on them to have flood insurance.
Require that vegetation be cleared annually.
Cannot be walked on.
Cannot be owned.
Require that new houses be set back from their edge.
A salt marsh.
A tidal falt.
A sea cliff.
A beach.
None of these.
Inevitable.
Unpredicted.
Part of the delta cycle.
Completely a result of natural causes.
Completely a result of human activities.
Fracture density.
Tidal range.
Wave energy.
All of these.
None of these.
Growing rapidly seaward.
Adding land slowly.
In a balance between land added the lost.
Losing land rapidly.
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