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55 Cards in this Set
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Population
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Economics
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Dynamics
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Littoral zone
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The coastal environment and exists where the tide-driven, wave-driven sea confronts the land.
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Offshore
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Nearshore
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Surf zone
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Swash zone
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Forshore
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Backshore
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Tides
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Are complex daily oscillations in sea level, ranging worldwide from barely nocticeable to many meters.
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Causes tides
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Tides are produced by the gravitational pull of both the sun and the moon.
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Tidal range tides
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Flood Tides
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Rising tides
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Ebb Tides
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Falling tides
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Spring Tides
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Exhibit the greatest tidal range, when the moon and sun are either in conjunction or opposition.
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Neap Tides
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Produce a Lesser tidal range.
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Waves
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Friction between moving air(wind) and the ocean surface generates undulations of water.
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Wave hight
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Wave lenght
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Measurement of a wave, between the crests of successive wave.
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Wave peoiod
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Wave crest
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Wave trough
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Wave generaction
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Fetch
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Wind speed
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Duration
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Orbital motion
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Shoaling transformation
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Tsunami
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Is a seismic sea wave triggered by an undersea landslide or earthequake.
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Erosional features
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Wave-cut platforms
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Features were action that cuts a horizontal bench in the tidal zone, extending from a sea clif out into the sea.
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Terraces
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Arches
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Stacks
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Depositional features
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Beaches
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Land along the shore where sediment is in motion, desposited by waves and currents.
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Storm-fairweather cycle
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Spits
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tombolos
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where sediment deposite connect the shoreline with an offshore island or sea stack.
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Barrier islands
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Generaly,a broadened barrier beache
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Biological features
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Coral reef
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Cylindrical marine animal with a saclike body that secretes calcium carbonate to from a hard external skeleton.
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distribution and controls
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Fringing
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Barrier
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Atoll
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Erosion problems
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Sea level rise
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Hand proctection
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Groins
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Breakwaters
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Jetties
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Soaft protection
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Beach nourishment
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