coastline
Coastlines change through erosion and deposition. This topic is part of Coasts within Geography. This page currently draws on 31 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
coastline trivia questions
What process wears away coastlines?
Answer: Erosion
Bonus fact: Waves, currents, and storms erode coasts.
What depositional feature can form when sediment builds outward from a shoreline?
Answer: Spit
Bonus fact: Longshore drift can build narrow spits.
A coastline is the boundary between land and what?
Answer: Sea or ocean
Bonus fact: Coastlines change through erosion and deposition.
Albania has coastline on the Adriatic and what other sea?
Answer: Ionian Sea
Bonus fact: Its southwestern coast faces the Ionian.
Which sea forms Croatia's long western coastline?
Answer: Adriatic Sea
Bonus fact: Croatia's coast includes more than a thousand islands and islets.
Eritrea has a coastline on which sea?
Answer: Red Sea
Bonus fact: Its Red Sea coast stretches along northeastern Africa.
Honduras has coastline on the Caribbean Sea and which small Pacific gulf?
Answer: Gulf of Fonseca
Bonus fact: The Gulf of Fonseca provides Honduras limited Pacific access.
Jordan has a short coastline on which gulf?
Answer: Gulf of Aqaba
Bonus fact: Aqaba gives Jordan access to the Red Sea.
Mozambique has a long coastline on which ocean?
Answer: Indian Ocean
Bonus fact: The Mozambique Channel separates it from Madagascar.
Somalia has Africa's longest mainland coastline along the Indian Ocean and what gulf?
Answer: Gulf of Aden
Bonus fact: Its northern coast faces the Gulf of Aden.
Belgium has a coastline on which sea?
Answer: North Sea
Bonus fact: Belgium's land neighbors are France, Luxembourg, Germany, and the Netherlands.
After Tahiti, Cook became the first European known to chart extensively which coastline?
Answer: The east coast of Australia
Bonus fact: Cook claimed the eastern Australian coast for Britain after sailing along it in 1770.