Intertidal Zone

The two different states of the Intertidal Zone include:

• Low tide and the splash zone

• Low tide and medium tide

• Low tide and high tide

• High tide and the splash zone

Species living in the Intertidal Zone must be able to survive which changes?

• Moisture

• Temperature

• Salinity

• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Holes, cracks, or crevices where seawater collects as the tide goes out.

• tide pools

• tide zones

• tidal waves

• tidal shore

Only exposed during low tide; contains the highest biodiversity

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

Only submerged at high tide; hotter and drier

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

Submerged and exposed for equal amounts of time

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

Ecosystem found on marine shorelines alternating between high and low tide

• Abyssal Zone

• Coral Reef

• Intertidal Zone

• Open Ocean

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Intertidal Zones along the coast of Northern CA can be found in

• Monterey

• Santa Cruz

• San Francisco

• All of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The Splash Zone can be described as

• Lies between medium and low tide

• Lies between high and low tide

• Area above the high tide zone in which animals survive by getting splashed by the waves.

• Never receives water

Species living in the Intertidal Zone include

• Sharks

• Whales

• Sea Stars

• Jellyfish