Seacoast Vocabulary

1. a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.
2. the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents.
4. Coasts made out of sand or small rocks.
6. is a natural opening eroded out of a cliff face by marine processes
7. the action of deposing someone, especially a monarch.
9. water dissolves rocks
10. are created in storm conditions. They are created from big, strong waves when the wind is powerful and has been blowing for a long time.
12. a natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff.
13. narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea.
16. is the breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals
18. Defence The protection of the coast from the action of wind
19. is a body of water partially surrounded by land.

1. that leads to the build-up of a beach, owing to the swash of the wave being more effective in moving material than the backwash.
3. the distance travelled by wind or waves across open water.
5. Action refers to the physical weathering and mechanical response of earth materials to flowing water in rivers and streams or breaking waves
8. the alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun.
11. is a turbulent layer of water that washes up on the beach after an incoming wave has broken.
12. the part of the land adjoining or near the sea.
14. As waves break on the shore, the water, stones and the energy of the waves cause erosion.
15. the motion of receding waves.
17. Rocks become smaller hitting each other.