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What is the different between swash an backswash?
Swash is movement of water up the beach whereas backswash is movement of water down the beach.
What is water from a wave rushing up a beach?
it is called 'surfer"
What is the up - and- down movement of water?
Infiltration is the vertical (up and down) movement of surface water.
What is a constructive wave?
A constructive wave is a powerful wave that surges up the beach with a powerful swash. This is the forward movement of the wave up the beach. It has a weak backwash, which is the backward movement of water down a beach when a wave has broken. Characteristics are: .swash is stronger than the backwash. .Has a low gradient. .Has low energy. .Produces gentle beach profile .Other names are: storm, surfing or plunging waves. .Typical off the SW coast of the UK.
Up and down movement of water is?
Infiltration is the vertical (up and down) movement of surface water.
Why is it cooler at the beach during the day?
Usually a beach has a breeze blowing in from the ocean. This movement of air can cool your skin and make the temperature seem less. I would think that the air is still in the morning and as the sun heats up the air and land, this results in movement of the air.
What effect does seawall have on a beach?
It protects the beach from being slottered (messed up) with water!!
What is water from a wave rushing up the beach?
tsunami
When the ocean water dips lower than its average?
Spring tides are when high water is far up the beach, and low water is far down the beach. Neap tides don't move up or down the beach as spring tides, so they are in between.
When a person kneels to pick up a shell on the beach what type of movement is exhibited at the knee joints?
flexion
What is vertical movement of water?
Wn water moves up it evaporates.
What direction is upthrust when a beach ball is floating on water?
Up
