Coasts Crossword

The wearing away of cliffs by sediment flung by breaking waves.
The force of the water in a river or sea, causing erosion.
Rocks being carried by the river smash together and break into smaller, smoother and rounder particles.
A type of erosion and transportation when soluble particles are dissolved into the river.
Area of ocean or lake surface over which the wind blows in an essentially constant direction, thus generating waves.
The type of wave that has a stronger backwash than swash.
The type of wave that has a stronger swash than backwash.
The geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.
The continual swash and backwash that transports material sideways along the coast.
A type of coastline with alternating bands of hard and soft rock.
The type of coastline that has the same type of rock along it's length.
Occurs when waves force their way into cracks in the cliff face, and hydraulic action erodes the rock.
If a cave is formed in a headland, it may eventually break through to the other side to form this.
The tall column of rock left when an arch collapses.
Left after a stack collapses.
A low energy area, made up of eroded material that has been transported from elsewhere and deposited by the sea.
An extended stretch of beach material that projects out to sea and is joined to the mainland at one end.
A spit that connects an island to the mainland.
Management of the coast that attempts to control natural processes such as erosion and longshore drift.
The breakdown of rock through the action of plants and animals.
The decomposition (or rotting) of rock caused by a chemical change within that rock.
The disintegration of rock into smaller pieces without any chemical change in the rock.
A type of weathering where water freezes inside the rock, then expands, causing pieces to break off.