Longshore Drift

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What causes the direction of the waves onto the beach?
Wind
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What is the term for the waves that push up the beach?
Swash
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What is the term for the swash that returns to the sea?
Backwash
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What causes the backwash to return to the sea?
Gravity
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What land formation that sticks out of the land?
A Spit
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What land formation is a beaches enclosing two headlands, forming a lagoon?
A Bar
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What land formation is a spit joining two islands?
Tombolo
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Card 2

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What is the term for the waves that push up the beach?

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Swash

Card 3

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What is the term for the swash that returns to the sea?

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Card 4

Front

What causes the backwash to return to the sea?

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Card 5

Front

What land formation that sticks out of the land?

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