Author Question: Wave action works to straighten a coast as wave energy focuses around headlands and tends to ... (Read 38 times)

HudsonKB16 · **on:** Jul 14, 2018

Wave action works to straighten a coast as wave energy focuses around headlands and tends to disperse energy in coves and bays in a process called

A) longshore current.
B) breakers.
C) wave refraction.
D) tidal bore.

Question 2

As a wave approaches the shoreline and enters shallower water, energy and water move forward causing the water to rise and cascade down from the wave crest as a breaker. These waves are called

A) waves of translation.
B) swells.
C) waves of transition.
D) tidal waves.