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Coastal Process & Landforms Flashcards

1
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Coriolis Effect

A

When winds and currents get deflected & don’t blow straight

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2
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Upwelling

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Deeper waters rising up when surface waters blow away

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3
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Thermohaline

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Circulation of temperature and salinity

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4
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Clockwise currents

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Northern Hemisphere

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5
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Counter clockwise currents

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Southern Hemisphere

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6
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What are Tides & what causes them?

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Strength of gravity between the sun and moon

  • All locations experience 2 highs and 2 lows tides every 25 hrs
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7
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What month has higher tides?

  • Sun, Moon, Earth are aligned- Pull Combo
A

Spring

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8
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What month has lower tides then Usual?

  • Sun, Earth, Moon - at right angle
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Neap Tide

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9
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Tidals found in Bay of Funday, Canada

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Greatest Tidal Range

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10
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Tidals found in Mediterranean

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Lowest Tidal Range

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11
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Wall of seawater rushing up a river

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Tidal Bore

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12
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how the height of the ocean rises or falls relative to the land at a particular location
-Sea levels that Changes Over Time

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Relative Term

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13
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Measuring the average of Tides Over meany YEARS

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Mean Sea Level

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14
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Waves that Swash and Backwash

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“Tip over” Waves

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15
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Seen in coves and bays

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Wave energy reduced

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16
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Alerts wave attacks and bends approaching waves

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Headlands

-Has a light house

17
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Currents that are straight (Calm)

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Parallel Currents

18
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waves that transports sediment/debris

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Along shore

19
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Backwash

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Beach Drift

20
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Landforms that have sea caves, arches, sea stacks

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Sea Cliffs

21
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because of this cut it changes the sea level indication
Hint: wave

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Wave cut terrace

22
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Long ridges extending out from a coast

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Barriers spits

23
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When a spit grows long and cuts off bay
-Lagoon is formed

A

Bay barriers

24
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Land extends in a trail and at the end theres a small land

A

Tombolo

25
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Sediment is deposited along coast
- may have quarts and resist to weathering

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Beaches

26
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Wave ground lave
-Hawaii

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Black sand beaches

27
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Big small rock or pebbles

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Shingle Beaches

28
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Mostly bits of coral spit or excreted by fish

A

White Sand

29
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How do beaches shore form?

A

-Begin as low ridges offshore
-Migrate Landward
-Not sable enough to build on

30
Q

Undersea earthquakes

A

Tsunamis

31
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Blocks materials from harbors
-pear

A

Jetty

32
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pail of sand to slow drift along coast

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Groin

33
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still water near coastline

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Breakwater

34
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Grows near the coastline around islands and continents

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Fringing reef

35
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a coral reef running parallel to the shore but separates from the deep water

A

barrier reef

36
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reef that surrounds the body of the lagoon

A

Atoll reef

Earth Sci 001 (2 decks)

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