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What moves sand along the beach?
The wind.
What is a water current that moves sand in a zigzag pattern along a beach?
The water current that moves sand in a zigzag pattern along a beach is called a longshore current. It is caused by waves breaking at an angle to the shoreline, creating a flow of water parallel to the coast that carries sand particles in a back-and-forth motion.
What is a current that moves sand in a zigzagging pattern along a beach?
it is the water currents dragging in seaweed plants and other things.
What words describes the motion of a grain of sand as it moves along?
A grain of sand can be described as rolling, sliding, or shifting as it moves along a surface.
How does sand get transported along a beach?
Sand gets transported along a beach primarily through longshore drift, where waves approach the shore at an angle and carry sediment parallel to the coastline. Additionally, tides and currents can also contribute to the movement of sand along a beach.
What moves sand along the shore?
longshore drift
How does a long shore current affect the shore?
It erodes the sand then forms a sandbar and moves the sand down the beach
What is it called when sand moves by jumps and bounces?
Saltation is the term used to describe when sand moves by jumping or bouncing due to the force of wind or water.
What are you standing on when you walk in the waves along the beach?
umm...Sand..Rocks...water..
How rocks in the mountains become sand on a beach along the coast?
They fall from the sky
Deposits of sediment that run along the shore?
often salt or potassium in other cases
How is the sand moved from beach to beach by waves?
As the waves move over the sand, they stir it up and some of it becomes entrained in the water. As the waves retreat, they take some sand with them. The water mixes out away from the beach with other water and then when it flows back up onto the beach, it doesn't land in quite the same place that it did the first time. On average, the water is moving in one direction parallel to the beach, so the entrained sand gradually moves in that direction too - thus sand bars migrate down rivers and ocean beach sand moves up the coast (or down depending on the prevailing currents).
