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1. What is a sea stack?
   
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2. Where in the US are rocky shores located?
   
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3. Where in the US are sandy shores located?
   
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4. Where in the US are both shores located?
   
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Next, go in numerical order on frame 199:

5. What’s a barrier island?
   
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6. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
   
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7. What stabilizes the dunes?
   
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8. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
   
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9. What is a spit?
   
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10. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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11. Seasonally, how do sand bars move?
    
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12. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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13. What is an inlet?
    
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14. (Thinker) What ripple mark shapes would you expect to find?    Uni-directional or Bi-directional?    Why?
    
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15. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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16. What is the difference between a flood-tide and an ebb-tide delta?
    
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17. Which process is most influential in shaping ebb-tide deltas?
    
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18. Describe a tidal flat.
    
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19. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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20. What is a back barrier?
    
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21. What is unique about water in these areas?
    
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22. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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23. What is a cusp?
    
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24. Which process is most influential in shaping these?
    
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25. What is the difference between orthogonal and oblique wave sets?
    
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26. What forms during orthogonal?
    
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27. Oblique does what to sediments?
    
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Move swimmer to answer on frame 203.

28. Clockwise and counterclockwise rotational features by beach form what in the water?
    
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29. From tips of cusps, out to sea is termed?
    
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30. On a cusped beach, what is the term for the region safe to swim?
    
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31. Longshore current does what to sediments?
    
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32. Which diurnal tides are most extreme?
    
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33. Why unequal?
    
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34. What is a spring tide?
    
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35. What is a neap tide?
    
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36. Which produces greater tides (and erosion)?
    
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37. Storm surge breaching a barrier island forms what?
    
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38. What’s a nor’easter?
    
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39. Type of sediments on Oregon coastal beaches?
    
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40. One cause for steep cliff coastlines?
    
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41. What’s a tsunami?
    
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