Oceans Earth/Space Bell

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Across
  1. 2. The area where edges of the continents meet the ocean.
  2. 4. The lowest point of a wave
  3. 7. Structure built parallel to shore to protect properties from storms.
  4. 9. Shallow water offshore. (sandbar)
  5. 11. Deep water between longshore bar and beach
  6. 13. The highest point of a wave
  7. 16. The largest ocean.
  8. 17. ridge of sand that forms between the mainland and an island and connects the island to the mainland.
  9. 18. Forms when a spit closed off a bay.
  10. 19. Tide cycle with one high tide every 24 hours
  11. 21. Periodical rise and fall of sea level.
  12. 22. A destructive wave caused by water displacement caused by underwater landslide, volcanic eruption, earthquake or iceberg falling into the sea.
  13. 25. Sediments originating from elements in seawater.
  14. 28. structures that provide anchorages and calm beaches.
  15. 29. Area where the seafloor drops away quickly to the abyssal plain.
  16. 30. Shallowest part of the continental margin, extending seaward from the shore.
  17. 33. Sediments originating from land.
Down
  1. 1. Currents flowing parallel to the shore inside the longshore bar.
  2. 3. Sediments originating from living and once living organism.
  3. 5. Difference in wave speed caused initially straight wave crest to bend when part of the crest moves into shallow water.
  4. 6. Large ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the United States
  5. 8. Long ridges of sand or other sediments deposited or shaped by longshore currents.
  6. 10. A gently sloping depositional surface at the base of a continental slope.
  7. 12. The amount of dissolved salts in seawater
  8. 14. 71% of Earth is covered by this.
  9. 15. wall like structure built into the water perpendicular to the shoreline for the purpose of trapping beach sand.
  10. 17. Rapidly flowing water currents the cut submarine canyons.
  11. 20. Tide cycle with one larger one smaller high tide in 24 hours
  12. 23. The transmission of energy through matter
  13. 24. Tide cycle with 2 high tides every 24 hours
  14. 26. Horizontal distance between the identical point on two waves.
  15. 27. Area in which sediments are deposited along the shore
  16. 31. Are formed when waves move into shallow water.
  17. 32. Narrow bank of sand that projects into the water from a bend in the coastline.