Beach Vocabulary

Joyce Ahn, Celeste Kazani Directions: Match the words below with their correct definitions.
1 beach 2 geological formation 3 shoreline 4 beach berm 5 crest 6 face 7 trough 8 sandbar 9 dune 10 erosion 11 headlands ____ the part of the beach berm that slopes toward the water ____ the process by which sand or a surface is worn away by the action of waves ____ the bottom of the face ____ the line where shore and water meet ____ the geological features of the earth ____ geological formation made up of sand, gravel, and shell fragments ____ the foamy top of a wave ____ a sand hill formed by the wind ____ a ridge of exposed sand built up in the water along a shore or beach by the action of waves or currents ____ a nearly flat portion of a beach, formed of material deposited by waves ____ land that is usually made of larger rocks, that juts out from the coastline and into the water