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