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How are beaches formed?
Solution
Beaches are formed when the sea waves deposit sediments along the shores of the sea.
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Across
2. Loop like the bend of a river
4. Solid form of water
7. Moving mass of ice
9. Sudden descent of water in the bed of a river
11. Natural cavity on weak rocks formed by action of waves
12. Embankment on a river that keeps it in its channel
13. Large body of sea water
14. Dry area where sand dunes are found
15. Small hill of sand caused by the action of the wind
16. Flat plain formed by river deposits during time of flood
Down
1. Rise and fall of water caused by friction of wind on water surface
3. Flow of water in a channel
5. Steep perpendicular face of a rock along a sea coast
6. Debris of boulder and coarse material carried by glacier
8. Crescent shaped lake formed by a meandering river
10. Fine sand deposited by the action of the wind
13. Isolated mass of rising steep rock near a coastline
14. Alluvial tracts of land formed by the river deposits at the mouth of a river
