Coasts (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE Geography): Exam Questions

Study Fig 1, which shows a beach area

Fig 1 - a beach

Describe the beach shown 

Fig 1, St Bees, Cumbria

Study Fig 1, which shows a photograph taken at St Bees, Cumbria

Describe this area 

Fig 1 - Sea defences

Study Fig 1, which shows sea defences

Explain how two of the coastal management strategies shown protect the coast from erosion

Fig 1

Study Fig 1, which shows a discordant coastline

Explain how The Foreland will change over time.  You may include a diagram in your answer

Describe and explain the process of longshore drift which is shown in Fig. 2.8 (below).

Students measured a beach profile from the edge of the sea to the cliff.

Describe how they would measure the profile using the following equipment:

• two ranging poles
• a clinometer
• a tape measure

Suggest reasons why people live along the coastline.

Study Fig. 4.5, which shows the Godavari sand spit in Andhra Pradesh, India.

(i)

Describe how the Godavari sand spit changed between 1889 and 2015.

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(ii)

Suggest how coastal processes changed the Godavari sand spit between 1889 and 2015.

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Fig. 4.1 (below) shows a coast in Scotland.

Fig. 4.1

Fig. 4.2 shows a student’s field sketch of the coast.

Fig. 4.2

Using Fig. 4.1 to help you, add labelled arrows to Fig. 4.2 to describe the features of the coast.