Unit 8 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. deposit of sediment connecting an island to the mainland
  2. 9. a cross-section taken perpendicular to a given beach contour, extending from the dune or seawall into the near-shore zone
  3. 11. a long, narrow offshore deposits parallel to shore
  4. 13. a structure built perpendicular to the beach and designed to protect an inlet
  5. 15. wet sloping surface from the berm to the shoreline
  6. 17. man-made structure designed to control erosion
  7. 18. sediment made from material eroded from the land.
  8. 20. seaward from the breakers to the edge of the Continental shelf
  9. 22. low tide line seaward to the breakers
  10. 23. sediments originating from space.
  11. 24. a wall built to protect an eroding coastline
  12. 25. deposit at the mouth of a river
  13. 27. movement of sand along the coast carried by the long-shore current
Down
  1. 1. low area between beach face and long-shore bar
  2. 2. sediments directly precipitated from water.
  3. 3. a structure built perpendicular to the coast to trap sand carried by long-shore transport
  4. 5. a structure built parallel to the beach which traps sand carried by long-shore current by blocking waves
  5. 6. sandbar across the mouth of a bay
  6. 7. deposit of sediment parallel to the shore out in the surf zone
  7. 8. dry backshore to the dunes
  8. 10. landward of the high water line
  9. 12. landward limit of the effect of the highest storm waves on the shore
  10. 14. Zone – between high and low water (intertidal zone)
  11. 16. sediment that comes from the hard remains of plant and animal organisms that have died.
  12. 19. movement of water parallel to the beach, caused by waves striking the beach at an angle
  13. 21. deposit of sediment along the coast
  14. 26. a strip of land that extends inland from the coastline as far as marine influence is evidenced in the landforms
  15. 28. deposit of sediment attached to the beach and parallel to the shore