The Sea

Question 1

What is fetch

Answer 1

The distance of open sea over which the wind blows

Question 2

How are waves formed

Answer 2

By wind moving across the surface of the sea

Question 3

What is swash

Answer 3

A wave brakes the water rushes up the the beach

Question 4

Backwash

Answer 4

Water returns back down the beach

Question 5

Constructive waves

Answer 5

Waves in which the swash is greater than the backwash they deposit material

Question 6

Destructive waves

Answer 6

Waves in which the backwash is greater than the swash they erode material and carry it away

Question 7

Hydraulic action

Answer 7

The physical force of the waves break material off the coastline

Question 8

Abrasion

Answer 8

Loose material is thrown against the coastline by waves

Question 9

Compression

Answer 9

When waves crash against a cliff air trapped in the cracks and joints on the cliff face and becomes compressed

Question 10

Solution

Answer 10

Some rocks such as limestone and chalk are dissolved by water

Question 11

Attrition

Answer 11

The stones that are carried in the water are constantly hitting against each other

Question 12

Bay

Answer 12

A curved area where the waves have eroded the coastline

Question 13

Headland

Answer 13

An area of hard rock jutting into the sea

Question 14

Sea caves

Answer 14

A tunnel at the base of a cliff

Question 15

Sea arches

Answer 15

An arch shaped tunnel that stretches through headland

Question 16

Sea stacks and stumps

Answer 16

A sea stack is a pillar of rock cut off the cliff or a headland and left standing on its own

Question 17

Blowholes

Answer 17

A passage that links the surface of the cliff top with the roof of a sea cave

Question 18

Longshore drift

Answer 18

The material transported by waves such as shingle mud and eroded material