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Can storm winds wash away barrier beaches?
Storm winds don't wash away barrier beaches, but the waves they generate can.
How can waves cause erosion?
Waves can wash away the beaches.
Costal features erosion?
Coastal erosion is when land is starting to wash away. This is when water wave began to wash away the beaches.
Giant tidal waves which wash away sand and rock from beaches are caused by?
It's caused by the moons gravitational pull
What causes seaweed to wash up on beaches?
Storms.
Do jelly fish live in beaches?
No. They live in the water, and sometimes wash up on beaches, at which point, they will die.
How do storm surges change landforms?
The storm surge comes with quite a bit of heavy surf, which can erode sediment and transport it elsewhere. This process can wash away beaches and even small islands.
Will over flowing river water wash away sand from beaches?
yes it will as the water from the ocean goes back to the sea it will take a little by little as it travels back and forth to the ocean and shore
What cause the MOST of the changes in beaches and shoreline earthquakes or tornadoes or wind and waves or heating and cooling?
wind and waves
How do cigarette butts get onto the beach?
people who smoke go to the beach and are to lazy to throw them away. They wash down storm drain inlets during rainstorms, entering our streams and rivers that empty on to our beaches. Go after a large storm and see how many butts wash up on shore, it is saddening.
How do events such as tornadoes hurricanes volcanic eruptions earthquakes and flooding rapidly change the surface features of the earth?
Volcanoes can build mountains fairly quickly, and destroy them even faster. They can form new lakes, and islands, and just as easily make them disappear. Flooding can change the courses of rivers and wash away terrain. Tornadoes can level forests ans strip away vegetation.
How do tornadoes affect bridges?
Tornadoes have caused bridges to collapse on a number of occasions. In some cases pieces of bridges have been carried away by tornadoes.
