Across
- 3. Where small pieces of shingle or large sand grains are bounced along the sea bed
- 5. Storm waves can reach heights of over 30 metres and hit sea cliffs with a force of over 30 tonnes per square metre.
- 8. Concerned with rocks
- 12. Dynamic interface zones where land, sea and atmosphere meet.
- 13. Where pebbles and larger material are rolled along the sea bed.
- 14. This is where the sea forces air into cracks at high speed. The immense pressure causes rocks to split apart and be swept away.
- 16. This is where the sea scrapes rocks together under the waves and breaks them down into ever smaller pebbles until they eventually become sand.
- 21. Where minerals in rocks like chalk and limestone are dissolved and carried in sea water. The load is not visible.
- 22. This is where the sea hurls bits of rock at the cliff face thus breaking more bits off. The rocks rub against the cliff, wearing it away like sandpaper.
- 23. Where small particles such as silts and clays are held and carried in the flow of the water.
- 25. The breakdown and decay of rocks by natural processes in situ (without moving).
- 26. The distance of open water over which the wind has blown (and therefore the wave has travelled)
- 27. The movement of sediment by waves or rivers
- 28. The movement of sediment along the beach caused by a change to the prevailing wind direction
Down
- 1. A transfer of energy caused by the wind blowing over the surface of the sea
- 2. Sea water can dissolve some rocks, particularly sedimentary ones such as chalk.
- 4. A feature of the landscape that has been formed or sculpted by processes of erosion, transportation, or deposition.
- 6. A wave where the backwash is stronger than the swash
- 7. A wave where the swash is stronger than the backwash
- 9. The movement of water back to the sea after a wave has broken
- 10. A process where sediments are dropped by waves or a river. This occurs when the waves/water slow down and lose energy
- 11. The wearing away and removal of material by a moving force, such as a breaking wave or river.
- 15. Coastlines where the geology alternates between bands of more resistant and less resistant rocks at right angles to the sea
- 17. This concerns the physical features and shape of a coastline, how they change, and the factors that can cause these changes.
- 18. Coastlines that have bands of different rock types running parallel to the sea.
- 19. A group of linked components (or bits) through which energy and material is cycled. Included input, outputs, stores, processes
- 20. Large scale movements of soil and rock debris down slopes in response to the pull of gravity
- 21. The surge of a wave onshore when it breaks
- 24. zone The location in which a wave breaks.