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Geography

1. Answer the following questions?


1. What are the impacts of global warming on the coastal area?
2. What does the “spit” mean?
3. Write the importance of dunes?
4. What is the usage of “Groynes”?
5. What cause the pollution along coasts?

2. Fill in the blank.


1. -------can move sand and pebbles along the shore.
2. The shallow pool of water trapped behind the bar is called a --------.
3. In many coastal towns and cities, ------ is treated to make it safe before it is put into the sea.
4. The seawater is allowed to evaporate in the Sun, leaving only ----- behind.
5. Coasts are good sites for the wind turbines that produce --------.

3. True or false.
1. Much of the world’s oil and natural gas is pumped from the rocks of the seabed.
2. Cliffs made of soil or soft rock can’t erode very quickly.
3. People sometimes do reclamation the land that was once covered by the sea.
4. When the waves slow down, they transport the materials they were carrying.
5. Over a period of time, longshore drift can carry the whole beach away along the coast.

4. Choose the correct answer.


1. Any sand and pebbles carried by the waves slowly travel along the shore in
(a) triangle pattern
(b) zig-zag pattern
(c) parallel pattern

2. Sand dunes are very fragile and they can produce the land form called
(a) blow- outs
(b) out bowl
(c) spit

3. -------- can be made in the sheltered bays, inlets and estuaries.


(a) Oil and gas exploration
(b) Electricity generation
(c) Fish farming

4. --------- are long and wide concrete walls or barriers made of rocks.
(a) Sea walls
(b) Breakwaters
(c) Barrages
5. The bacteria in sewage use up the -------- in the seawater, left little for aquatic animals.
(a) chlorine
(b) oxygen
(c) nitrogen

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