The Oceans - Chapter 2: Shoreline Features

Question 1

These form from the cutting action of the surf against the base of coastal land

Answer 1

Wave-cut cliffs

Question 2

As erosion progresses, rocks overhanging the notch at the base of the cliff crumble into the surf and the cliff retreats. This leaves behind a relatively flat, benchlike surface called

Answer 2

The wave cut platform

Question 3

What forms at first when a headland that extends into the sea is attacked because of refraction and the softer rock weathers away?

Answer 3

Sea caves

Question 4

When two sea caves on opposite sides of a headland unite, a ____ results

Answer 4

sea arch

Question 5

When the sea arch falls in and leaves an isolated remnant, a ___ forms on the wave cut platform

Answer 5

sea stack

Question 6

Elongated ridges of sand that project from the land into the mouth of an adjacent bay

Answer 6

Spits

Question 7

Often the end of a spit in the water hooks ___ward in response to wave generated currents

Answer 7

landward

Question 8

A sand bar that completes crosses a bay, sealing it from the open ocean

Answer 8

Baymouth bar

Question 9

A ridge of sand that connects an island to a mainland or to another island

Answer 9

Tombolo

Question 10

Low ridges of sand that characterize the shore zone of Atlantic

Answer 10

barrier islands