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📅 NSB MS 2016🎓 MS🔄 Round 17#️⃣ Question 17❓ TOSS-UP📝 Multiple Choice

To maintain beaches that are rapidly losing sand to erosional processes, barriers are built at right angles to the beach to trap sand that is moving parallel to shore. What are these barriers called?

W) Groins
X) Breakwaters
Y) Seawalls
Z) Piers
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