Coasts and Waves

What is a coast

• Land next to the ocean

• The edge of a desert

• A type of erosion

• Another name for a swamp

How are waves created

• By magic

• By the fetch and wind speed

• By animals swimming

• by the moon’s gravitational field

What are the parts of a wave?

• Backshore, offshore, dunes, foreshore

• Wavelength, crest, trough, wave height

• Wavelength, crest, amplitude, wave height

• I don’t know

waves carry a lot of sediments in them, what is that called

• transportation

• Deposition

• Erosion

• Hydraulics

Select all the types of coastal erosion

• Hydraulic action

• Deposition

• Abrasion

• Scraping

Deposition occurs when

• Wave energy is high

• Wave energy is low

• All of the above

• None of the above