Vocabulary Gr. 6 Thematics

The amount of salt dissolved in a body of water.

• Brackish water

• Wetlands

• Salinity

• Intertidal

An area  that it is submerged with water during high tide and exposed to the air during low tide.

• Coastal Region

• Intertidal Zone

• Salinity

• Ecotone

A  term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth.

• Ecology

• Biology

• Biodiversity

• Biosphere

Carbon travels from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.

• Water Cycle

• Carbon Dioxide

• Hdyro-carbon

• Carbon Cycle

Water that is saltier than fresh water, but not as salty as seawater.

• Brackish water

• Salinity

• Wetland

• Water cycle

A transition area between two biological communities.

• Ecology

• Ecotone

• Wallace Line

• Intertidal Zone

A branch of physics that deals with the motion of fluids.

• Thermodynamics

• Water Cycle

• Hydrodynamics

• Hydro-carbons

A word that some people use to describe the era when humans made a wide scale impact on the earth’s ecosystems, geology and atmosphere.

• Anthropocene

• Anthropology

• Ethnosphere

• Sociology

A term that people use to signify plant growth along the world’s coastlines that capture large quantities of carbon dioxide

• Carbon sink

• Climate Science

• Blue Carbon

• Global Warming

A change in global or regional climate patterns due to humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide.

• Fossil Fuels

• Climate Change

• Blue Carbon

• Global Warming