Wave Erosion - Angela Cruz

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Across
  1. 3. A _____ is left standing when a sea arch collapses.
  2. 4. Waves mostly deposit _____.
  3. 5. Large ocean waves are the result of powerful _____ far out at sea.
  4. 7. As waves come to shore, they gradually change _____.
  5. 9. A _____ is a long ridge of sand parallel to the shore.
  6. 10. Ordinary _____ can produce waves in lakes or small ponds.
  7. 11. These stand out from the coast into the ocean; they are made out of harder rock that resists erosion by the waves.
  8. 13. The wearing away of rock by a grinding action.
  9. 17. Type of cliff that forms when waves erode a rocky shoreline.
  10. 18. _____ blows waves across the water's surface.
Down
  1. 1. _____ are formed when sea caves on either side of a headland join.
  2. 2. Long, narrow island parallel to the coast, formed when storm waves pile up large amounts of sand above sea level.
  3. 4. _____ are formed as waves hollow out the cliff.
  4. 6. When waves carrying sediment hit land, the sediment wears away rock like _____.
  5. 8. As waves repeatedly hit the beach, some of the beach sediment moves down the beach with the current.
  6. 10. Area of wave-washed sediment along a coast.
  7. 12. Happens when large waves hit rocks along the shore with great force.
  8. 14. Beaches that project like a finger out into the water.
  9. 15. waves eventually _____ the headlands to even out the shoreline.
  10. 16. Major force of erosion along coasts.