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Junior Cycle Geography: Coasts

How often Coasts comes up on the Geography papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Coasts, Common Level(7 marks)

Quick ones on Coasts.

(a)Waves moving sand along a beach in a zigzag is called?
  1. Hydraulic action
  2. Longshore drift
  3. Attrition
(b)In what order does wave erosion form a sea stack?
  1. Stack, arch, cave
  2. Arch, cave, stack
  3. Cave, arch, stack
(c)A ridge of sand joining an island to the mainland is a?
  1. Tombolo
  2. Sand bar
  3. Spit
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(a) Longshore drift

(b) Cave, arch, stack

(c) Tombolo

Your turn: Common Level questions on Coasts.

Common Level

Asked on 3 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q2A, Q2B, Q2C
2025Not asked
2024Not asked
2023Q2A
2022Q3A

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Coasts questions

Coasts, 3 marks

Why do headlands and bays form on some coasts?

  1. Waves only reach the coast at low tide
  2. Glaciers left piles of moraine along the shore
  3. Rocks of different hardness erode unevenly
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Rocks of different hardness erode unevenly

Where bands of hard and soft rock meet the sea, soft rock erodes back into bays while hard rock is left jutting out as headlands.

Coasts, 2 marks

Waves trap air in cracks in a cliff and the pressure breaks the rock. This is?

  1. Attrition
  2. Hydraulic action
  3. Abrasion
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Hydraulic action

Waves slam into the cliff and squeeze air into cracks. As the wave pulls back, the air expands suddenly, weakening the rock until pieces break off.

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