Bio 1202 Coasts

4. Coasts/erosion is usually less rapid (hit by fewer waves).
6. Coasts/Growing, their rate of sediment accumulation increases.
7. crest/the highest peak of the berm, usually the farthest from the shoreline.
9. trailing edge, smooth, gradual decrease into water.
10. drift/the movement of sediment along the coast.
13. Islands/ Narrow, exposed sandbars that are parallel to but separated from land.
14. is the active part of the shore.
15. Coasts/New coasts, the dominant processes are those that remove coastal material.
19. edge, sharp cut off, near moving continents.
20. scarp/the middle between two berms.
21. platform/marks the submerged limit of rapid marine erosion.

1. narrow bays formed from glaciers.
2. Mouth Bar/ forms when a sand spit closes off a bay by attaching to a headland adjacent to the bay.
3. a passage to the ocean.
5. farthest part of the beach, this can include grass.
8. Body of water partially surrounded by land, where fresh and salt water mixes.
11. cliffs/slope abruptly from land into the ocean.
12. from wave washing onto the beach.
13. of sediment that runs parallel to shore, this often marks where the deposition of sand occurs.
16. spits/ forms where the longshore current slows.
17. Coasts/erosion is usually most rapid (hit by a lot of waves).
18. swash coming back to the water.