Coasts

Vocabulary Terms

• atoll
• backshore
• backwash
• barrier island
• barrier reef
• bay mouth bar
• beach
• beach scarp
• berm
• berm crest
• breakwater
• coast
• coastal cell
• coral reef
• delta
• depositional coast
• drumlin
• erosion
• erosional coast
• estuary
• eustatic change
• fjord
• fjord estuary
• foreshore
• fringing reef
  

• groin
• high-energy coast
• inlet
• lagoon
• longshore bar
• longshore current
• longshore drift
• longshore trough
• low-energy coast
• low-tide terrace
• moraine
• partially mixed estuary
• reverse estuary
• rip current
• salt wedge estuary
• sandbar
• sand spit
• sea cave
• sea cliff
• sea island
• shore
• swash
• tombolo
• wave-cut platform
• well-mixed estuary
  

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