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1. small cracks in the layers of rock created during earth movements.
4. areas of land protruding out to sea formed of resistant (harder) rock. They help protect the bay which forms between them from wave attack.
5. Rock: a rock that will not allow water to pass through it e.g. clay.
7. where a spit grows across a bay. A bar can eventually enclose the bay to create a lagoon.
9. an undercut part of the cliff base where wave attack concentrates erosion.
10. erosion caused when rocks and boulders transported by waves bump into each other and break up into smaller pieces.
11. a former bay cut off from the sea by a bar.
12. the return of water to the sea after waves break on a beach.
13. Action: the process by which breaking waves compress pockets of air in cracks in a cliff. The pressure may cause the crack to widen, breaking off rock.

2. out at sea, away from the land.
3. Factors: see Coastal Erosion Factors and Coastal Deposition Factors.
6. Weathering: the breakdown of rock through the action of plants and animals.
8. Drift: waves approaching the coast at an angle result in the gradual zig-zag movement of beach materials along the coast.
10. the direction a cliff faces; facing the direction of the prevailing wind can lead to high rates of cliff erosion.
12. Depletion: the loss of beach material e.g. by offshore dredging of shingle banks.