What is the differences between beach, shore, and coast?
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Beach:\nan area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake \nland on a beach; "the ship beached near the port" \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nA beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach\n\nthe zone of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the low water line to the coastline\npao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/quest/ports/terms.htm\n\nThe part of a coast that is washed by waves or tides, which cover it with sediments of various sizes and composition, such as sand or pebbles.\ncollege.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary/b.html\n\na narrow strip of land that rises gradually from an adjacent body of water, usually consisting of sand and/or small stones\nwww3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossary/\n\nthe shore between the high and low water mark, covered with sand or pebbles\nwww.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/rc/dictionary/rcdict.html\n\nunconsolidated intertidal material.\ngmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/BayOfFundy/glossA-D.html\n\nan accumulation of sand and gravel found at the landward margin of a sea or lake. The upper and lower limits approximate the water levels at highest and lowest tides.\nwww.texasep.org/html/lnd/lnd_7bch_defs.html\n\nan accumulation of loose sediment (usually sand or gravel) along the coast.\nwww.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/bmpm/glossary.html\n\nthe sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel (coast, shore, strand).\nwww.charttiff.com/place_names.shtml\n\nThe accumulation of sand, gravel, or sediment located at the transition zone between land and water.\ngeography.about.com/library/weekly/aa061697.htm\n\na sandy or rocky sloping area between high and low tide\nwww.oceanadventure.org/mecst_out.html\n\narea of buildup of coastal sediments (in Australia a beach is most commonly regarded as being composed of sand) (P)\nwww.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/flinders/land-defns.htm\n\nthe temporary deposition of sand and shingle along the coastline. Without its beach a coast is vulnerable to erosion, eg the cliffs at Barton on Sea were easily eroded following the construction of a groyne updrift at Bournemouth.\nwww.geographyfieldwork.com/GeographyVocabularyGCSECoasts.htm\n\nThat portion of the shore between ordinary low and high water marks. Commonly used to describe any sandy area adjacent to a body of water.\nwww.massrelaw.org/glossary/b.htm\n\n\nCoast\nseashore: the shore of a sea or ocean \na slope down which sleds may coast; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course" \nthe area within view; "the coast is clear" \nslide: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" \nmove effortlessly; by force of gravity \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nThe coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline refers to a particular length of coast. The term coastal describes a location as being on or near a coast. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast\n\n\n\nThe area of dry land that borders on a body of water.\ncollege.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary/c.html\n\n\nthat geographic area west of the Cascade Mountains, as officially delineated by the Cascade Mountains Administrative Line through British Columbia from Washington state to Alaska, including the lower Fraser River area south of Hell's Gate (south of Boston Bar), taking in the Coquihalla, Silverhope, and Skagit River drainages lying east of the line, but excluding the portions of the Kalum Forest District and Cariboo Forest Region lying west of the line.\nwww.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/glossary/C.htm\n\n\nA strip of land of indefinite length and width that extends from the s
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I like Seaside. I'm from WA and the beaches here are very cold and the sand isn't very barefoot friendly. To me Seaside is way better then our beaches, but still not nearly as good as a Cali beach. I like the town of Seaside, it is cute. It is just a typical northwest beach: cold.
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i like Florida's beaches because they are so diverse.  on the east coast the sand is coarse and tan with a view of the dark blue-gray atlantic ocean.  some, like daytona beach allow cars to drive on them (i don't particularly like that).  on the west coast and the panhandle, the beaches are made of bright white "sugar" sands on the (mostly) calm waters of the blue-green gulf of mexico with beautiful sunsets.
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The beach i live near is a sandy colour (not white sadly).  With some pebbles but not much seaweed.\nThe beach i live near is in Bournemouth, England.\nAnd incidentally i have been travelling to a lot of places and my all-time favourite beach is in a place called Esperance, in South West Australia.
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An ocean is a global interconnected body of salt water.\n\nA sea is a large expanse of saline water connected to an ocean.\n\nA lake is a body of water surrounded by land that is either freshwater or salt water.  The majority of lakes are freshwater.
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The Coastal Lowland is a narrow strip of relatively low ground between the sea and the cliffs leading to the Plateau. \nhttp://www.well.com/~bubbles/lowland.html\n\nThe Coastal Lowlands border the entire coast. They are flat plains, less than 100 feet (30 meters) above sea level.\nhttp://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-200847
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if you're talking ocean coastline it's Florida with approx 1350 miles (then CA and HI). Lake shoreline I don't know. Michigan perhaps?
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sea : salt water on a surface greater than 0.7862 km\n\nbay : water between the beach and reef\n\nocean : a group of 23 or more sea\n\ngulf : sea round a peninsula
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hilly, earthquakes, mud slides, gay/lesbian rights movement,\ncrowded (populated), big houses, beaces, hot weather, on the coastline, longest state, huge zoo, seaworld, \nwell thats what i got .. hope it helps :o)
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A bay is a body of water.  Like, say, Hudson Bay\n\nA peninsula is a strip of land that extends into a body of water. It is "almost an island".  E.G. Baja in Mexico is a peninsula.
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specific heat capacity : \n  * Grass contain more water content than beach sand. The grass evaporate the water and make itself cool.\n  * Sand has more specific heat capacity, it absorbs more heat and retains it.
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1. Water (surface run-off, streams, rivers, sea currents, etc), Wind and Gravity\n2. Seas, lakes, rivers, estuaries etc\n3. Compaction.\n4. Cementation.
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I am the first person to answer you question because the answer is not answerable.  It is a feeling.  Stand on the beach, look out at the ocean, watch the birds, listen to the crashing waves.  If you feel it, you know.  If you don't... then the beach is nothing special.
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Eh? Two bodies of water.\nPacific on the west coast\nAtlantic on the east coast.\nBoth are oceans.
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I think that what you are asking about might be better called coastal deposition.\n\nOver the span of geologic time the sea level has changed dramatically. As the sea level has moved up and down over time the coastal erosion process has created continental shelves that are covered in deposits eroded from dry land around some continents. This process has also helped shape the coastlines of the continents. \n\nOne of the more spectacular examples of coastal deposition are river deltas. The sediment carried by the river is deposited as the flow of river water slows. This tends to sort the sediments according to the energy level of the water that is flowing into the open ocean. First larger grains like gravel and pebbles settle down, and as the river slows, sand, and finally clay size particles settle out of the water. Many river deltas have built up sediment deposits that are several miles thick and cover areas as large as some states. Most of southern Louisiana is a river delta deposit. \n\nAlong many coasts there is a predominant wind direction that helps to build coast long-shore currents. These currents move parallel to the coastline and will cause sediment accumulations (from rivers) such as sand bars and islands to slowly migrate in one direction. Much of the sand on beaches is actually slowly migrating along the shore. As heavier winter waves move the sand offshore, the sand also tends to move along the shore and sometimes temporarily moves back up onto the beach at a new location. \n\nAnother geologic process that is involved in coastal change is both uplift and subsidence. Uplift is taking place on some coasts due to tectonic plate motion. Other coasts are subsiding, or sinking, due to both faulting and slow compaction of underlying sediments. This sort of subsidence is taking place along the Gulf Coast of the US where there are large growth faults that parallel the coast that are sinking towards the Gulf. Sediment deposited thousands and millions of years ago is still settling in some areas and this leads to loss of coastal wetlands and rising local sea level. \n\nIn other areas coastlines are being changed by local erosion of uplifted sediments (e.g. California). Landslides carry hillsides down to the coastline. Another change in many coastlines is being caused by a geologic process called isostacy. As glaciers accumulated across North America during the last ice age, they weighed down that part of the earth's crust and caused it to sink into the asthenosphere. The glaciers melted long ago, but the areas that were covered by glaciers are still rising. This creates a sort of teeter-totter effect, where some coastlines like parts of the East Coast of the US and the Louisiana coast are sinking. \n\nInformation on isostatic rebound:\nhttp://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/isostasy1/\n\nMississippi River Delta:\nhttp://www.lacoast.gov/geography/basins/mr/\n\nExplanation of long shore drift:\nhttp://www.cofc.edu/CGOInquiry/longshoredrift.htm\n\nGood explanation of barrier islands:\nhttp://www3.csc.noaa.gov/beachnourishment/html/geo/barrier.htm\n\nA very good illustration of differential erosion in a coastal setting:\nhttp://www.rgs.edu.sg/events/geotrip/stack.html\n\nUN Coastal Types:\nhttp://www.oceansatlas.com/servlet/CDSServlet?status=ND0yNzYwJmN0bl9pbmZvX3ZpZXdfc2l6ZT1jdG5faW5mb192aWV3X2Z1bGwmNj1lbiYzMz0qJjM3PWtvcw~~
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Day: water <--- land\nNight: water ---> land
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Andes mountains are taller, the stream systems are straight, and the amount of distance between the mountains and the shoreline are different.  ie most of the distance to the shoreline was once up on the mountains.