Louisse Quiz Flashcards
Occure where waves breaks on shore
Coastal process
Are usually caused by wind and controlled by wind speed
Wave
Causes a continual reworking of sediment on a beach and translation parallel to the shore
Longshore drift
Due to the combination of gravitational and centrifugal forces results in a twice daily rise and fall of sea level
Tides
Abnormal rise of water generated by a storm over and above the predicted astronomical tides
Storm surge
The movement of material from one place to another
Transportational coast
It is an extended stretch of beach material that projects out to see and is joined to the mainland at one end
Splits
Are wetlands that form as rivers
Deltas
Result where an easily eroded piece of rock is removed
Sea cave
If the arc collapses the seaward part is still there and is a stack
Sea stack