Dune Systems - Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. something that lasts only for a short time
  2. 3. slowed down, blocked
  3. 5. new, forming, embryo
  4. 9. closer to the sea than the land
  5. 10. the slope that is sheltered from the wind
  6. 12. shape
  7. 14. old, a remnant or leftover
  8. 15. closer to the land than the sea
  9. 16. the part of the beach from the HWM to the landward edge of the beach
Down
  1. 1. next to, beside
  2. 4. build-up, accumulation
  3. 6. when a piece of sediment is 'picked up' or moved by the wind. Also called erosion when referring to aeolian processes
  4. 7. low-slope beach, tends to have spilling breakers and a wide foreshore
  5. 8. speed
  6. 11. the processes and factors that create the shape of a feature
  7. 13. wild, untamed