Coastal Ecosystem

An estuary is best defined as a place where--

• fresh and salt water meet

• a river meets the Chesapeake Bay

• a group of animals are gathered

• the water from the land flows into a river

What is 1 use of an estuary?

• Used as a place to help predators capture their prey

• Used as a "nursery" to help organisms raise babies

• Used as a place the filter sediment and trap pollution

• Used as an "overflow" area to prevent flooding

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A semi-enclosed area where fresh water from a river meets salty water from the sea.

• Watershed
• Groundwater
• Estuary
• Ocean

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A natural system linked by living (plants, animals) and nonliving (soil, air, water) things?

• Ecosystem
• Riverbasin
• Watershed
• Estuary

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The totality of genes, species and ecosystems in a region

• Biodiversity
• Greenway
• Carrote=s
• Macroinvertebrate 

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the amount of salt dissolved in water is

• pH

• salinity

• solution

• miscibility

factors that are non-living things such as climate that affect an ecosystem

• biotic

• salinity

• sources

• abiotic

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factors that are living things that affect an ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• organic

• brackish

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Kelp, Seaweed, Phytoplankton and algae do what to oceans.

• Provided food for crabs

• use chemicals to make energy called chemosynthesis

• are heterotrophs that make their own food using sunlight

• Are autotrophs that make their own food during photosynthesis

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High stress for sessile organisms due to exposure of the elements is cause by all of the following except:

• Desiccation - drying out

• Predation

• Temperature and Salinity changes

• Floods

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