Chapter 19 Vocabulary Quiz Part III
Across
- 2. a water wave in which the top falls over on the forward side of the wave
- 3. the water depth to which a wave disturbance reaches equal to half the wavelength below the still water level
- 6. the vertical distance between a wave's crest and its trough
- 9. rapid currents flowing outward to sea from indentations along a shore on which large waves are breaking
Down
- 1. a current that flows parallel to the shore and is caused by waves that approach the shore at an angle
- 2. a spit that extends across the mouth of a bay
- 4. a coastal erosional formation resembling a natural bridge that was caused by wave erosion of a sea cave through a narrow headland
- 5. a mass of rock that wave erosion has isolated from the shore
- 7. formed by erosion of a cliff face by waves
- 8. a narrow sand formation deposited by waves and currents that extends out from a headland