Unit 1 : Netherlands and the sea

4. example of beach replenishment in Den Haag
5. name of a dutch province in the South
7. name of the sea north of the Dutch islands
8. a crack will eventually become a ____ as waves keep hitting a landform
9. name of the sea between the islands and Noord Holland & Friesland
13. different word for farming
14. dam in the Netherlands. Constructed between 1927 and 1932
18. landform created by deposition
22. They dissolve soluble material from the rock.
23. direction from which the waves were coming during our field trip
24. example of hard engineering in Netherlands, near Rotterdam
26. natural protection against erosion
27. Chunks of rock get knocked together and worm into smaller and smaller bits. They end up as shingle (pebbles) and sand.

1. direction on a compass
2. They pound at the rock like a hammer. Over time, this breaks the rock up.
3. creating new land from existing bodies of water, such as oceans, seas, or riverbeds, or improving degraded land to make it usable for purposes like agriculture
6. year in which a devastating flood took place in the netherlands
10. example of a landform
11. a "new" province of the netherlands which used to be under water
12. length of distance of water the wind blows over
15. the water that washes up the beach when a wave breaks
16. dutch era between 1500 and 1800
17. job of someone living on the coast
18. the water rolling back into the sea after a wave hits the beach
19. a way to protect the coast from coastal processes
20. a way to cross a body of water
21. one of the threats/dangers of living near the coast
22. landform created by erosion
25. process of sediment being transported along a coastline, driven by waves that approach the shore at an angle