geography coasts

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Across
  1. 2. Water rushes up a beach when waves break
  2. 4. Wide indented coasts
  3. 5. Resistant rocks which extend into the sea
  4. 8. A zone of sediment deposition formed usually from loose sand , gravel, pebbles
  5. 11. Large scale, continuous movement of water in seas and oceans
  6. 13. Daily alternate rise and fall in sea level
  7. 14. A spit which extends until it connects off shore island to mainland
  8. 17. Sediment size of less than 0.0039mm
  9. 18. Sediment size of 2mm to 64mm
Down
  1. 1. When swash loses energy due to gravity and friction with the land and returns to sea
  2. 2. A long, narrow ridge of sand or pebbles with one end attached to the land
  3. 3. Lithosphere
  4. 6. The process which weakens rocks
  5. 7. When rock particles carried by waves rub or hit one another and break into smaller pieces
  6. 9. Area where land meets the sea
  7. 10. Arrangement and composition of rocks found in area
  8. 11. A steep and near-vertical rock face found along coasts
  9. 12. Lowest part of a wave
  10. 15. Sediment size of more than 256mm
  11. 16. Highest part of a wave