Processes
Actions
Beaches
General
100
What is the process that wears away rocks and beaches?
Erosion
100
What common action results when wind blows across water?
Waves
100
These are formed when wind blows sand inland from the beach.
Dunes
100

What are the two types of plankton?

What are zooplankton and phytoplankton?

200
What material might we find on a beach that originates in the Biosphere?
Coral and shells
200

Name 2 types of coastal management

Answers could include: sea wall, groyne, beach nourishment, break wall, geotextile sandbags etc

200
What can form when an oceanic volcano sinks slowly below the water?
Coral Atolls
200

What type of support structure do sharks have?

What is cartilage?

300
What is the process that lays new material down, new sand on a beach for example?
Deposition
300

What carries sand down a beach?

What is longshore drift.

300

What holds sand together and prevents erosion onshore ?

What is vegetation?

300

Ocean organisms that float with the currents.

What are plankton?

400
What two processes occur that continually change beaches?
Erosion and Deposition
400
What water source brings new silt and chemicals to the coast?
Rivers
400
The name for the current that carries sand along the beach?
Longshore drift
400
Ocean organisms that can swim faster than the ocean currents.

What are nekton?

500

A large wave or series of waves that moves towards land on a rising tide.

What is a tidal bore?

500
What force can move lots of water but usually have little effect on coastal landforms?
Tides
500

What sandy landform can be created parallel to a sandy beach, there are several along the coast of North Carolina.

Barrier Islands

500

What is the symbiotic algae that live with coral?

What is zoxantellae?

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