ISS 310 Exam 1 || Questions and 100% Accurate Answers.
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Development of farming correct answers What development allowed early hunter-gatherer humans to establish settlements?
Lower correct answers In comparison to today, early human impacts to coastal environments were...
False correct answers True or false: only marine coastlines have large popul...
ISS 310 Exam 1 || Questions and 100% Accurate Answers.
Development of farming correct answers What development allowed early hunter-gatherer
humans to establish settlements?
Lower correct answers In comparison to today, early human impacts to coastal environments
were...
False correct answers True or false: only marine coastlines have large populations and freshwater
coastlines are sparsely populated
Late 1800s, early 1900s correct answers Coasts did not become a destination for recreation until
when?
Fertile soil and abundant water, access to sea for trade, mild climate correct answers What are
reasons for why coasts are an ideal place to settle for humans?
Ecological damage, pollution-runoff, marine debris, unintended consequences of shore
protection correct answers What is a way that humans cause coastal change?
False correct answers True or false: early coastal settlements did not experiences the same threats
(i.e., tsunamis, sea level rise) that modern settlements experience today
Retreat and melting of glaciers from the last Ice Age, causing ocean warming and sea level rise
correct answers What natural global event has had the most influence on coastal settlement by
early humans?
True correct answers True or false: rock coasts can erode down over time to produce new,
separated landforms like sea stacks
False correct answers True or false: the Great Lakes experience large astronomical tides like the
ocean
Tides correct answers What is primarily responsible for causing daily water level fluctuations
along ocean and estuarine coast?
True correct answers True or false: barrier islands can be developed by humans and are highly
vulnerable to storm and sea level rise
Along bays, deltas, and barrier islands correct answers Where do wetlands occur?
Sea-level has risen correct answers Nuisance flooding occurs commonly now because...
Wind velocity, wind duration, original sea state, and fetch correct answers What controls the
type and size of wind wave?
, Spring tide correct answers The worst tide would occur during...
False correct answers True or false: wave orbitals reach the bottom when waves are traveling as
deep-water waves
North east winds correct answers Which wind direction produces the largest fetch for the coasts
of Marquette, MI
Seiche correct answers Basin-scale oscillation in water level
False correct answers True or false: the frequency, duration, and magnitude of astronomical tides
are the same globally
Facilitates; drives correct answers Water level ____________ coastal change, whereas winds,
waves, and currents _____________ coastal change
False correct answers True or false: seiche and meteotsunami are two terms used to describe the
same process
1/3 of waves measured correct answers Significant wave height is the highest...
Fetch correct answers Area that wind can blow across that create waves
False correct answers True or false: Great Lakes water level only rises gradually and slowly over
decades whereas sea level is rising but can fluctuate up and down over several years
False correct answers True or false: the most dangerous storms are ALWAYS the costliest
storms in terms of infrastructure and habitat damage
Surging correct answers If the shore face is very steep, you could expect to have ____________
breakers
Parallel; perpendicular correct answers Longshore currents move ___________ to the shoreline,
whereas cross-shore currents move _____________ to the shoreline
Low topography and an embayment correct answers What characteristic makes a location
physically vulnerable to storms?
Extratropical storms correct answers Storms that occur outside of the tropical region (i.e. Great
Lakes, Nor'Easters)
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