Beach Features

Question 1

Back Shore

Answer 1

The backshore area of a beach extends from the limit of high water foam lines to dunes or extreme inland limit of the beach. It is only affected by waves during exceptional high tides or severe storms.

Question 2

Beach Berms

Answer 2

The shingle ridges often found towards the back of a beach are called berms.

Question 3

Beach Cusps

Answer 3

Beach cusps are shoreline formations made up of various grades of sediment in an arc pattern. The horns are made up of coarser material and the embayment contains finer sediment. … However, they can occur with sediment of any size.

Question 4

Foreshore

Answer 4

the part of a shore between high- and low-water marks, or between the water and cultivated or developed land.

Question 5

Concordant Coast

Answer 5

Layers of rock run parallel to the coast

Question 6

Discordant Coast

Answer 6

Layers of different rock type run perpendicular to the coast.

Question 7

Littoral Zone

Answer 7

The littoral zone is the near shore area where sunlight penetrates all the way to the sediment and allows aquatic plants (macrophytes) to grow.

Question 8

Till

Answer 8

Unsorted material deposited directly by glacial ice. Till is sometimes called boulder clay

Question 9

Till (Scree)

Answer 9

Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, volcanoes or valley shoulders that has accumulated through periodic rockfall from adjacent cliff faces. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits.