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CHAPTER 10.1 STUDY GUIDE
1. Which two ingredients are needed to make sand?
2. How do waves make sand from rocks?
3. What is a shoreline?
4. Waves that reach the California coast may come from far away places like _____?
5. Waves that move in groups are called ________?
6. The waves in a wave train are separated by the ________ ________?
7. Why do waves curl and break?
8. Breaking waves are known as __________?
9. How does the pounding surf create sand?
10. Describe how sea cliffs are formed?
11. Name 5 coastal landforms created by wave erosion.
12. Why are storms responsible for a lot of erosion that takes place along a shoreline?
13. What is a beach?
14. The size and shape of beach material depends on what?
15. Why is some sand black?
16. Where do rocky shores commonly form?
17. Where do sandy shores commonly form?
18. In California, what happens to the size of beaches during winter and summer?
19. What is an undertow?
20. What is a longshore current?
21. What is a negative effect of longshore currents?
22. What is a sandbar?
23. What is a barrier spit?
24. What is a barrier island?
25. How do offshore islands help the coastline?