GPH 113

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A desert is only found in hot locations.

False

A useful guide that shows how the body handles the given atmospheric conditions (what the temperature "feels" like):

Heat Index

The coastal environment is also known as the littoral zone.

True

Who is most impacted by heat stress?

all of the above

A spring tide is noted by:

an unusually large tidal range

The wavebase, where wave movement stops, is found __________________________.

at half the wavelength

What is the desert landform that is formed from coalesced alluvial fans?

bajada

The term "eolian" refers to

erosion, transportation, and deposition by the wind.

A tsunami is just a really high tide.

false

Headlands receive diverging wave action and bays receive converging wave action.

false

Most deserts are seas of sand dunes with little vegetation and animal life.

false

Sediment transported in the longshore current

is called longshore drift.

The height of a tsunami grows as it approaches a coastline primarily because

its wavelength decreases.

After swimming for hours at Virginia Beach, you find that you have moved downbeach of your beach towel, even though you did not deliberately swim in that direction. This occurs because of:

longshore currents

This desert landform, a _______________ , is usually wider than it is tall.

mesa

An erosional coastal landform is:

none of the above

Desert pavement refers to

surfaces of concentrated pebbles and gravels that are produced by particle removal and water-delivered cementing materials.

_________________ is the onshore movement of a wave.

swash

Tides occur because:

the surfaces on Earth 'bulge' in response to gravitational forces

In a basin, what is the daily oscillation built mostly by the moon's gravitation?

tides

An earthquake, submarine landslide, or eruption of an undersea volcano is capable of producing a

tsunami

Wave action works to straighten a coast as wave energy focuses around headlands and tends to disperse energy in coves and bays in a process called

wave refraction.


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