Coastal Definitions

4. The way one thing or process affects another
5. Water movement up a beach as a wave breaks
6. A spit is a coastal landform, a stretch of beach material that projects out to the sea. It is connected to the mainland at one end.
9. Off-shore ridge of sand that is submerged at hightide
10. The wearing away of the coast by natural processes such as wind and wave action (2 words)
11. Wind related processes or phenomena
12. Deposition is the process in which sediments (sand) is added to a landform (beachface/dune)

1. A zone which includes the swash, surf, and breaker zones and extends to the start of the offshore zone.
2. The uninterrupted distance over which wind is affecting the sea surface
3. The backwards movement of the water under gravity after a wave breaks
4. The zone between low tide and high tide level
7. A distinctive feature or thing that is part of the natural environment that the processes act upon or within. For example, shore platform, dunes, cliffs, and the beach.
8. Sand accumulations deposited on the backshore in the form of ridges and small hills