Geology 330 - Television Course

Review Questions for Program #16: On the Coast

Please fill out and return this sheet after viewing Program #16. If you are unsure of an answer, give your best intelligent guess.

1. What percent of the U.S. lives next to the coast?

2. What are primary coastlines? Secondary coastlines?

3. What is an emergent coastlines? submergent coastlines?

4. What is the difference between active and passive margines?

5. What are barrier islands?

6. How do they form?

7. How does the east coast differ in physical character from the west coast?

8. What are some ways to mitigate coastal erosion?

9. What is a longshore current?

10. What is the main source of beach sand?

11. What does damming rivers do to coastlines?