Formation of Barrier Islands
Across
- 4. movement of sand parallel to the shore caused by the angle of waves breaking on the beach
- 6. elongated island made of unconsolidated sediment
- 7. the laying down of sediment
- 8. a long narrow sandbank
- 10. Beach sand piled up
Down
- 1. result of the movement and placement of sediments and rock from one place to another.
- 2. very productive areas which are important to the life cycle of many ocean species
- 3. forming or belonging to a continent
- 5. struck barrier islands in New Jersey 2012
- 9. a beach building out from the mainland across the mouth of a shoreline indecation