Across
- 1. the return of water to the sea after waves break on a beach
- 3. found on low-angled beaches and mainly responsible for coastal deposition. They are gently breaking, with a much stronger swash than backwash
- 6. A bend in a river
- 8. a smaller river that joins a larger one.
- 11. an undercut part of the cliff base where wave attack concentrates erosion
- 12. a rock that will not allow water to pass through it
- 14. the direction from which the wind usually blows.
- 16. a ground cover of bushes and grass on a cliff face helps prevent cliff erosion; their roots hold and trap (stabilise) soil and prevent it being lost by mass movement
Down
- 2. the point at which rivers meet.
- 4. where a river starts, usually in the mountain
- 5. Large, heavy pebbles are rolled along the river bed.
- 7. wave-eroded passage through a small headland. This begins as a cave formed in the headland, which is gradually widened and deepened until it cuts through
- 9. where silt (sand, clay or other material) and sand particles are held in water (but not dissolved).
- 10. the breakdown of rock through the action of plants and animals.
- 13. wearing away of cliffs by sediment flung by breaking waves
- 15. areas of land protruding out to sea formed of resistant (harder) rock. They help protect the bay which forms between them from wave attack.
- 17. erosion caused when rocks and boulders transported by waves bump into each other and break up into smaller pieces