Coral Reefs
The largest coral reef system in the world is located in this country.
What is Australia?
This is the primary agent of coastal erosion.
What is wave action?
This is the chemical process that dissolves limestone.
What is carbonation?
A narrow ridge of sand or shingle projecting into the sea.
What is a spit?
This type of reef grows directly from the shore or borders the coastline.
What is a fringing reef?
This erosional feature is formed when a wave-cut notch is enlarged.
What is a wave-cut platform?
This is a general term for a landscape formed by the dissolution of limestone.
What is karst?
An isolated pillar of rock left standing after a headland has been eroded.
What is a stack?
This process, caused by increased water temperatures, leads to the expulsion of zooxanthellae.
What is coral bleaching?
This feature forms when a spit grows across a bay, closing it off.
What is a baymouth bar?
These cave formations hang from the ceiling.
What are stalactites?
This depositional feature is a narrow ridge of sand that connects an island to the mainland.
What is a tombolo?
These underwater structures, built by coral polyps, provide habitat for a vast array of marine life.
What are coral reefs?
This process involves the movement of sand along the coastline by waves approaching at an angle.
What is longshore drift?
This is a large, bowl-shaped depression in a karst landscape.
What is a doline or sinkhole?
Name two landforms created by wave erosion.
What are sea arches and sea stacks?
This type of reef forms a ring around a submerged volcano.
What is an atoll?
This term refers to the downward movement of sand particles in the direction of wave impact and the upward movement in the direction opposite the wave.
What is swash and backwash?
Two Caribbean countries with prominent karst landscapes.
What are Jamaica and Barbados?
This coastal feature is formed when waves erode the base of a cliff, causing the rock above to collapse.
What is a sea cliff?