"An Introduction to Coastal Vocabulary": HTML5 Crossword

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4. What do you call the calm, protected area of water between a barrier beach or coral reef and a coastline? (6)
7. What do you call the type of chemical weathering where natural rainwater, a weak carbonic acid, reacts with calcium carbonate in rock to produce calcium bicarbonate? (11)
8. What do we call the breakdown of rock by physical and chemical processes due to the presence of water, plants and animals? (10)
11. What do we call removal of sediment from the bottom of a sea or river? (8)
12. What part of the shore only affected by waves during major storms and spring tides? (9)
13. What do you call solid rock underlying other surface materials? (7)

Down

1. What do you call a channel formed on a poorly vegetated hillside by soil erosion? (5)
2. What is the name given to a large wave, or series of waves, caused when an earthquake causes massive undersea crust movements and/or collapses which displace the water above? (7)
3. What do you call the removal of rock material by an agent (water, wind or ice)? (7)
5. What do you call a small type of bay or coastal inlet? (4)
6. What do we call the climate of land areas in coastal regions where the characteristics of the climate are clearly affected by the proximity to the water mass? (8,7)
9. What do we call any material, of any size, which has been eroded /weathered and then transported and deposited by water, wind or ice? (8)
10. What is average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time called? (7)
12. What is the movement of water down a beach back to the sea after having run up the beach in the swash? (8)