Coastline Key Vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Abounding in ___ or stones (5)
  2. 5. The land along the edge of a body of water (5)
  3. 6. A submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river (8)
  4. 10. A protective structure of stone or concrete (7)
  5. 11. A sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals (9)
  6. 13. Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind (7)
  7. 15. A natural elevation (8)

Down

  1. 1. An orderly pile (plural) (6)
  2. 2. Dominant course of successive events or ideas (7)
  3. 4. A geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of (4)
  4. 5. A sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (9)
  5. 7. A soft whitish calcite (5)
  6. 8. An indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf (3)
  7. 9. The outline of a ___ (9)
  8. 12. Sandy shore beside the sea (5)
  9. 14. A steep high face of rock (5)