Across
- 6. Coastal management tool used to analyze and describe the different sediment inputs and outputs on the coasts.
- 8. Zone where the land meets the sea.
- 9. Structure constructed parallel to the coastline that shelters the shore from wave action.
- 10. Disturbances or oscillations in electrical and magnetic fields.
- 11. Distance between trough to trough.
- 13. Can either be free or fixed and can occupy a hierarchy of scales, from individual rip cells to entire beaches.
- 15. Formed when something falls into the ocean and creates a splash.
- 18. Hard coast.
- 24. Geological process that consists of the transportation of sediments along a coast.
- 25. Soft coast.
- 26. Currents that carry sand, sediment, and even people out into deeper waters if they are not careful.
- 27. Groyne, Sea Wall, Offshore Breakwater
- 29. Two rocky barriers which mark the ends of a beach and have a fixed sediment budget, although usually leaky to some extent.
- 31. Semi-Hard coast.
- 33. Wave that is formed at the boundaries of water masses of different densities and propagates at depth.
- 34. Attached to the land at both the proximal and distal end and are generally widest at the down-drift end.
- 36. Loss or displacement of land.
- 37. Lowest point of the wave.
- 38. Generated due to the combined effect of the Earth’s rotation and the gravitational attraction from the Moon and the Sun.
Down
- 1. The restoring force that allows them to propagate is gravity.
- 2. Constructed perpendicular to the coastline from the shore into the sea to control longshore currents.
- 3. Disturbances in any medium or substance.
- 4. Formed when longshore drift travels past a point where the dominant drift direction and shoreline do not veer in the same direction.
- 5. Waves receding back into the ocean.
- 6. Waves crashing onto shore.
- 7. Can act as sinks and sources for large amounts of material, which therefore impacts on adjacent parts of the coastline.
- 12. Process of coastal sediment returning to the visible portion of a beach.
- 14. Seismic Sea Waves
- 16. Structure that is constructed parallel to the shore (in the nearshore zone) and serves as a wave absorber.
- 17. Waves are most commonly caused by?
- 18. How fast the wave travels.
- 19. Number of waves passing a point in a given amount of time.
- 20. Beach Nourishment, Dune Building
- 21. These are generated by large-scale atmospheric systems or storms, characterized by low pressures and strong sustained winds.
- 22. Marine waters out to 15 km are under what government jurisdiction?
- 23. Group of trees and shrubs that live in the coastal intertidal zone.
- 28. Highest point of the wave
- 30. Time it takes for two successive crests to pass a given point.
- 32. Type of fish that has no market value as human food.
- 34. Creates a wider beach by artificially increasing the quantity of sediment on a beach
- 35. The restoring force that allows them to propagate is surface tension.