Vocabulary
Where the land and sea meet.
What is the coast?
The movement of sediment along the coast in the direction of the prevailing wind.
What is longshore drift?
Dropping material that has been carried.
What is deposition?
Rock material carried by waves.
What is sediment?
The most common direction the wind blows from.
What is prevailing wind?
Extension of a beach into the sea, attached to mainland at one end.
What is spit?
The distance the wind blows over without being stopped by an object.
What is fetch?
What does "dynamic" mean?
Movement of the wave from the sea to the beach.
What is swash?
Spit that has fully stretched across a bay.
What is sand bar?
What is bay?
Trap the sediment that is being transported down the beach due to longshore drift.
Why we build groynes on the beach?
Spit that has reached an island.
what is tombolo?
Coastal management technique works with nature.
What is soft engineering?
What is formation?
Waves enter an area of shallow water, sheltered area. When there is a little wind or lots of sediment.
When does deposition occurs?
Direction and size.
How does the wind affect waves?
Coastal management technique used to protect coasts. Highly visible man-made structures.
What is hard engineering?