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What is the ridge of sand built up by the action of waves and currents?
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∙ 11y ago
it is called a sandbar
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What is a barrier sand bar?
# A ridge of sand formed in a river or along a shore by the action of waves or currents. # A long mass or low ridge of submerged or partially exposed sand built up in the water along a shore or beach by the action of waves or currents. -dictionary.com
What landform is built up by waves and currents?
Mountain
How does the sea?
The sea erodes its coasts, mostly by the violent process of waves action, in conjunction with tides and ocean currents.
What is a coastal bar?
A coastal bar is a submerged shore parallel embankment of sand or gravel built in the breaker zone due to the action of breaking waves and cross currents. These bars are very mobile and move a lot during storms.
How does the sea erode?
The sea erodes its coasts, mostly by the violent process of waves action, in conjunction with tides and ocean currents.
What makes a canyon and sandbars similar?
Sandbars and sand dunes are both sand piled on top of sand by the pressure of currents. Sandbars are accomplished by the action of water currents (waves). Sand dunes by air currents (wind).
What affects do water waves and currents have on beaches?
waves and currents make the shore bigger
Is a ocean lentic or lotic water?
It has to be Lotic, because of waves and currents.
How are currents different from waves?
Currents are a small source of water moving and waves are a bigger source of water moving. The waves are control (more or less made) by the wind where as the waves control and create the currents which is pretty strange. Currents are the one associated with the movement of water where as Waves carry only Energy i.e. NO mass transport
What happen when surface currents meet a continent?
you get waves not tidal waves or tsunami's! You just get waves. how big they get would depend on air currents and storms
How do currents work?
currents are effected by a lot of things one of them is the moon. The moons gravitational pulls the waves towards it causing waves to move
What causes ocean currents and why is it important?
waves
