IV. Coastal Waters
(5 pts)
BEACH VEGETATION
1. What do plants at the top of the dunes have to adapt to the most? What are some adaptations they use to combat these forces?
LONGSHORE CURRENTS AND SETTLING VELOCITIES
2. How does water movement differ from close-to-shore to further off-shore? What factors are influencing this?
TIDAL WAVE ENERGY
3. Explain how waves are able to sort sediments. Where would you find the coarsest sediments being moved by wave energy?
SEDIMENT CORING
4.Why do we look at sediment cores of beach sediment? What can sediment cores on the beach tell us?
BEACH PROFILING AND CHARACTERIZATION
5. Why do we do beach profiling? Who would this information be beneficial to?