OCE 1001 Chapter 10 Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The image above is an example of which of the following?
Answer: ???
Question 2: Examine the five words and/or phrases and determine the relationship among the majority
of words/phrases. Choose the one option that does not fit the pattern.
Answer: ???
Question 3: Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: Coastal regions have
experienced population increases and increased damage BECAUSE programs like the National Flood
Insurance Program have encouraged construction in the unsafe locations they were designed to
prevent.
Answer: The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid.
Question 4: Which of the following best describes the coastal ocean environment that results in the
temperature versus depth graph shown above?
Answer: high latitude
Question 5: Compared to a typical estuary, which of the following exhibits the exact opposite
circulation pattern?
Answer: Laguna Madre
Question 6: What is longshore transport?
Answer: the transport of sand and other sediment in a zigzag pattern down the beach
Question 7: In the figure above, showing a hypothetical groin along a coastline. The triangle extending
between the groin and the land represents sediment deposited by the longshore current. In what
direction is the longshore current moving? Assume up is north.
Answer: north
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, Question 8: Which of the following statements is/are true regarding groins? Choose all that apply.
Answer: Groins increase erosion on the downcurrent side. Groins slow the movement of sand along the
beach. Groins are hard-stabilization structures that are always built perpendicular to shore.
Question 9: What are groins typically composed of?
Answer: large blocks of rock and concrete
Question 10: How do engineers decrease the amount of erosion caused by a groin?
Answer: They build more groins and place them parallel to each other along the beach.
Question 11: Which of the following is/are part of a beach compartment? Choose all that apply.
Answer: beach
Question 12: Which of the following processes is responsible for the movement of sand down the beach?
Answer: longshore transport
Question 13: What are submarine canyons?
Answer: steep-sided valleys cut into the continental slope
Question 14: What process formed the submarine canyons off the Southern California coast?
Answer: ???
Question 15: Which of the following beach compartment-to-submarine canyon affiliations is incorrect?
Answer: ???
Question 16: What type of feature is a barrier island?
Answer: depositional
Question 17: Where are barrier islands common? Choose all that apply.
Answer: east coast of the United States Gulf coast of the United States
Question 18: In which area of a barrier island would you expect to find a woodland or forest?
Answer: barrier flat
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Question 1: The image above is an example of which of the following?
Answer: ???
Question 2: Examine the five words and/or phrases and determine the relationship among the majority
of words/phrases. Choose the one option that does not fit the pattern.
Answer: ???
Question 3: Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: Coastal regions have
experienced population increases and increased damage BECAUSE programs like the National Flood
Insurance Program have encouraged construction in the unsafe locations they were designed to
prevent.
Answer: The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid.
Question 4: Which of the following best describes the coastal ocean environment that results in the
temperature versus depth graph shown above?
Answer: high latitude
Question 5: Compared to a typical estuary, which of the following exhibits the exact opposite
circulation pattern?
Answer: Laguna Madre
Question 6: What is longshore transport?
Answer: the transport of sand and other sediment in a zigzag pattern down the beach
Question 7: In the figure above, showing a hypothetical groin along a coastline. The triangle extending
between the groin and the land represents sediment deposited by the longshore current. In what
direction is the longshore current moving? Assume up is north.
Answer: north
Page 1
, Question 8: Which of the following statements is/are true regarding groins? Choose all that apply.
Answer: Groins increase erosion on the downcurrent side. Groins slow the movement of sand along the
beach. Groins are hard-stabilization structures that are always built perpendicular to shore.
Question 9: What are groins typically composed of?
Answer: large blocks of rock and concrete
Question 10: How do engineers decrease the amount of erosion caused by a groin?
Answer: They build more groins and place them parallel to each other along the beach.
Question 11: Which of the following is/are part of a beach compartment? Choose all that apply.
Answer: beach
Question 12: Which of the following processes is responsible for the movement of sand down the beach?
Answer: longshore transport
Question 13: What are submarine canyons?
Answer: steep-sided valleys cut into the continental slope
Question 14: What process formed the submarine canyons off the Southern California coast?
Answer: ???
Question 15: Which of the following beach compartment-to-submarine canyon affiliations is incorrect?
Answer: ???
Question 16: What type of feature is a barrier island?
Answer: depositional
Question 17: Where are barrier islands common? Choose all that apply.
Answer: east coast of the United States Gulf coast of the United States
Question 18: In which area of a barrier island would you expect to find a woodland or forest?
Answer: barrier flat
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