Wave Erioson

Photo on 5-14-15 at 2.00 PM

For our project, we and Ally had wave erosion. The smaller one represents the before, which did not have the sandbar, island, headland, or the sea cave, ect. The before only mildly had waves hitting the mainland, which was flat and the same hight. We also had at the beginning a smaller island starting up to represent how it was forming. The after had a lot of vocabulary. Including; Barrier Islands which are  long ridges of sand or other sediment. They can be several kilometers wide and tens of kilometers long. They are very shallow bodies of water. The east coast has a very  long strip of Barrier Island that go along the coast. And  Head Land which is the part of land that goes out farther. Wave Erosion occurs when waves are thrusts at earth surface that hearl to shore, breaking down the loose earth material, moving it around, and creating what we know as Wave Erosion. We also included; longshore bar, longshore current, Rip current, wave refraction, Wave cut platform, sea stacks, sea caves, Estuary, Tombolo, Abrasion, longshore drift, and a spit. We made the model out of clay, paint, toothpicks, tape, and allt he typical things used to either write, mold, ect.

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