Exam 17: Coastal Processes and Landforms

Estuaries only exist in lakes.

Standing bodies of water include ____.

It is possible for coastal waters to become polluted.

Sediment transportation within the coastal zone is called ____________________.

The world ocean covers what percentage of Earth's surface?

The most effective form of wave erosion is ____.

Beaches can be made of gravel.

Rising sea level since the Pleistocene has played a major role in the formation of ____.

The continental slope connects the continental shelf and the abyssal plain.

Marine terraces are uplifted former ____.

Most of the waves that impact the coastal zone are caused by ____.

A(n) ____________________ beach commonly accumulates at the base of a sea cliff.

Lagoons always occur ____.

The expanse of open water across which wave-forming wind blows without interruption is called the ____.

The horizontal distance between two wave crests is the ____________________.

After broken wave water rushes up the beach face as far as it will go, it returns toward the water body as ____________________.

Energy in a wind wave increases with ____.

The moon rises ____ minutes later every day at any given spot on Earth.

Wave refraction ____.

____ sediments may be carried to deep water at a stream outlet into a standing body of water.