8E12 Quiz

What is another name for an estuary?

• Cookie

• sound

• sand

• pond

What is Brackish?

• A mixture of freshwater and saltwater

• Fast moving river and waves

• A great place for plants to grow

Which of these plants can be adapted to a salty habitat?

• Black mangrove

• Mangrove seedlings

• cordgrass

What is a salt marsh?

• Coastal wetlands located in tropical and subtropical zones

• Narrow islands of sand that provide a buffer for the mainland from the sea.

• A low area that is subject to regular, but gentle, tides

What is affected in a coral reef destruction?

• Animals

• ships

Which zone is between high tide and low tide line?

• oceanic zone

• Benthic zone

• Neritic zone

• Intertidal zone

True or False: The three basic lifestyles in the ocean are plankton, Nekton, Benthos.

• True

• False

What zone is over the continental shelf?

• Benthic zone

• Neritic zone

• Intertidal zone

• oceanic zone

What can be another name for the Epipelagic zone?

• sunlight zone

• Aphotic zone

• Disphotic zone

• Midnight zone

True or False: planktons are very fast swimmers.

• False

• True