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Describe how material is transported along a beach?
Material can be transported along a beach via longshore drift;Waves approach beach at an angleMaterial is pushed up the beach by the swash in the same direction as the wave approachAs the water runs back down the beach the backwash drags material down at right angles to the beach lineOver a period of time sediment moves in this zig-zag fashion down the coast.Material can also be transported along a beach at low tide when the sand dries out by the wind (usually forming sand dunes)Material may also be transported up and down a beach by attrition. Waves may have fairly high energy so will pick up material and may loose energy further up the beach and therefore deposit it there.Might also be moved by saltation (waves carry slightly smaller sediment in the same way as attrition)Waves may be swash-aligned (waves hit beach straigt on, so sediment moved up and down beach) or drift-aligned (waves hit beach at right angles causing longshore drift)
How are sand and gravel particles moved along the ocean bottom?
Sand is gradually carried down the beach by Longshore Drift.
How do you use the word along the beach in a sentence?
"He walked along the beach."
What is the process in which beach sediments is moved down the beach with the current?
Longshore drift.
How does sand and other material on a beach get there?
The sand and other material are deposited on the beach by the wind and tidal currents.
What is the prepositional phrases in the following sentence as I walked along the beach I saw a couple playing Frisbee with their children?
The prepositional phrase is "as you walked along the beach".
What is the process called in which beach sediments are moved down the beach with the current?
Longshore drift.
Is longshore drift the cause or effect of a longshore current. Explain?
effect. longshore drift is the combined effect of sediments moved by longshore currents and and beach drift. longshore currents are ocean currents that flow parallel to the coast while beach drift is the resultant zigzag movement along the beach.
What is an example of along as a preposition?
An example of "along" used as a preposition is: "He walked along the beach." In this sentence, "along" shows the direction in which he walked, next to the beach.
What do you call the area where the shoreline is made up of material deposited by waves?
Much of the coarser sediment material supplied by rivers settles out near shorelines or on beaches.
How does longshore drift work and move material?
Longshore drift is the process by which sediments along a shoreline are transported parallel to the coast by the action of waves and currents. Material is moved along the coast as waves approach the shore at an angle, causing sediments to be pushed and pulled along the shoreline. This process can result in the formation of features such as beaches and spits.
An area of wave washed sediment along a coast is called?
beach.
