coasts gcse geography
Across
- 3. when a ____ (the answer to 6 down) forms over a bay in the coast(3)
- 5. material breaks up often along bedding planes and falls down a slope (9)
- 8. the type of waves with high frequency high enrgy and a backwash stronger than swash(11)
- 12. the movment of sediment by waves which approach at the angle of prevaling wind but recede at 90 degrees(4,5,5)
- 14. boulders that are pilled up along the coast (4,6)
- 16. the type of wave with low frequency and low enrgy where the swash is more powerful than the backwash (12)
- 17. pebble sized partecles are bounced along the sea bed (9)
- 18. a wall of wire cages filled with rocks (7)
Down
- 1. alowing areas to flood to stop othe higher risk areas from flooding(7,8)
- 2. a coastal manegment straegy that sits perpendicullar to the coast and traps sediment from longshore drift(6)
- 3. a coastal landform that froms in between hard rock and soft rock (3)
- 4. ____engenering the type of coastal manegment that is more natural(4)
- 6. an area of a beach where sediment projects out to sea (4)
- 7. creating or restoring dunes by nourishment or planing vegetaion (4,12)
- 9. beach___________ sand and shingle from elsewhereis addeed to the upper part of the beach(10)
- 10. material rotates along a curved slip plane (6)
- 11. large particles are rolled along the sea bed (8)
- 13. man made coastal engeneering staritiges (4)
- 15. material shifts in a straight line along a straight plane (6)