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| These waves have limited energy and build up beaches (greater swash than backwash) | Constructive waves |
| These waves have alot of energy and erode beaches (greater backwash than swash) | Destructive waves |
| The distance over which the wind has blown to form a wave | The Fetch |
| The wearing away of the land | Erosion |
| The force of waves compressing air in cracks in cliffs, forcing the cracks open. | Hydraulic Action |
| When salts and other acids in seawater slowly dissolve rocks | Solution |
| When large waves hurl beach material against a cliff | Abrasion |
| Water moving up a beach | Swash |
| Waves swirling rock fragments about, which collide and break each other down | Attrition |
| Water moving down a beach | Backwash |
| The movement of material along a coast | Longshore Drift |
| Ridge of sediment reaching across the mouth of a bay | Bar |
| Ridge of sediment joining an island to the mainland | Tombolo |
| Ridge of sediment growing out into the sea (formed by longshore drift) | Spit |
| Wave-cut platform | solid rock platform at the base of a cliff |
| Rock left standing out in the sea having been separated from the mainland by erosion | Stack |
| Wave cut passage through a headland | Arch |
| Area of hard resistant rock jutting out into the sea | Headland |
| An indent in the coastline where there is soft less resistant rock | Bay |
| A build up of sand, pebbles and the sea where the land meets the sea | Beach |