Beach Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. storm surge elevates water up to the dunes
  2. 5. Where the beach face is alternately covered by the run up of the wave swash & then exposed again
  3. 7. water goes over the dunes and sand is deposited inland
  4. 11. Quartz is the most abundant material that makes up this.
  5. 13. water is free flowing passed the dunes; creates new inlets and often occurs on islands
  6. 14. The movement of weathered materials from one place to another
Down
  1. 1. where the waves become unstable & break
  2. 3. Where small waves occur following a wave breaking
  3. 4. An accumulation of unconsolidated sediment
  4. 6. waves and currents remove sand from the beach
  5. 8. Breakdown of material by wind, waves, ice, etc.
  6. 9. Nearly vertical cut into the beach profile formed by wave erosion
  7. 10. The area of the beach that is sometimes covered in water and sometimes completely dry
  8. 12. Nearly flat back portion of beach formed by material deposited by waves