GPH 113
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.