Across
- 2. a strategy that requires nourishing beaches, building seawalls and replanting coastal vegetation
- 4. a strategy that requires buildings to developed away from areas prone to natural hazards
- 5. this strategy includes regulating development
- 8. involves construction of structures to protect coasts
- 11. what are four-pronged concrete structures that help dissipate wave energy
- 13. another word for reducing the damaging activities people do to the coast
- 15. another word for taking care of coastal resources
- 16. beach nourishment slows down the what of beaches?
- 17. these are constructed to protect coastlines against wave attack by absorbing wave energy
- 19. these wire cages are usually filled with crushed rocks, what are they called
- 20. what must be built to prevent vegetated dunes from being disturbed by human traffic?
Down
- 1. another word for stopping development in areas prone to natural hazards
- 3. what is it that help break the force of oncoming waves?
- 6. involves protecting the coast using natural processes
- 7. what position are the tetrapods stacked?
- 9. what are low walls constructed at right angles to the shore to retain sediments that might otherwise be removed due to longshore drift
- 10. what damaging activities do to the function of natural systems
- 12. a management strategy resources from being exploited or ?
- 14. a natural hazard starting with the letter T and ending with the letter i
- 18. what do coral reefs help to wave energy?