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Waves are created by the transfer f energy from the wind blowing over the surface of a body of water. ... Two types of waves are sea and swell; sea result from local winds and travel short distances, swell is formed by distance storms and travels long distances. ... As waves approach a shoreline they become increasingly parallel to the coastline and this effect is known as wave refraction. Waves form beaches as we know them and they can be broken down into three main sections, backshore, foreshore, and nearshore. Beaches act as a buffer zone, an effective beach will absorb wave energy without any net change, because of the loose material a beach can mutate without having any net change. Beaches tend to be either wide or relatively flat and those that are narrow and steep. ... Destructive waves are high powered and tend to promote disintegration of the beach where constructive waves are low energy and tend to bring in more particles then they erode.
Approximate Word count = 802
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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