Ocean Coastal Habitats

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

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• tide pools

• tide zones

• tidal waves

• tidal shore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The "clam up" strategy can be used by an organism to do what?

• keep water/moisture inside of their bodies

• maintain body temperature

• cool off their bodies

• access more food sources

Estuaries are places where freshwater and saltwater meet.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Lagoons, harbors, inlets, sounds, river or stream mouths, and wetlands are all estuaries.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Estuaries have salty water like seawater.

• True

• False

Salt marshe are nourished with sediment from inflowing rivers and streams.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2