Coast Terms Quiz

These are the oscillating movement of the sea as wind blows over the water. It is a curling body of water that swings back and forth...

• waves

• wind

• ocean movements

• tides

___ is the land along a sea

• coast

• coastline

• ocean

• notch

This is the boundary of a coast, where land meets water.

• coast

• coastline

• coast boundary

• quarry

The highest part of a wave

• trough

• wave height

• crest

• tide

The lowest part of a wave

• trough

• wave height

• crest

• wave denudate

The vertical distance between the crest and the trough

• wave length

• wave height

• wave width

• wave depth

The distance between two consecutive wave crests

• wave length

• wave height

• wave width

• wave depth

The movement of water up the shore is called the:

• swash

• snash

• backwash

• upwash

The pulling back movement of water back into the sea

• swash

• snash

• backwash

• upwash

The distance of open sea over which the wind (which creates the wave) blows before a wave strikes the coast

• wave extension

• tidal distance

• fetch

• longitude rate