Estuary & Beaches Review

Place the following in order from LEAST effective to MOST effective in protecting a coastal town from a severe storm

• Dunes

• Dunes with vegetation

• No dunes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

Match the following

• Dunes

• Accumulate sand; protect from storms and tides

• Ocean beach

• Relatively shallow water between island and mainland; nursery for fish and shrimp

• Lagoon

• Differs little from other beaches

• Salt Marsh

• Intertidal grassland that is biologically diverse and productive

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• Diurnal

• Tidal Pattern with two high tides and two low tides per 24 hour period

• Estuary

• Regulate the salt concentration within their cells

• Semidiurnal

• Semi-enclosed area where freshwater and saltwater meet and mix

• Osmoconformers

• Tidal pattern with one high tide and one low tide per 24 hour period

• Osmoregulators

• Cannot regulate the salt concentration within their cells

Select the different types of Estuaries

• Well mixed

• Fjord Type

• Partially mixed

• Salt wedge

• Salt lagoon

On sandy beaches, moving water carries particles suspended in it, and the ​ more rapid the water movement, the ​ (a)   the particles carried are.

• smaller
• larger
• misshapen
• colorful

When fresh and salt water mix in an estuary, the (a)   water will sink to the bottom and the ​ (b)   water will float on top.

• salt
• fresh

When warm water from the equator mixes with cold water from the poles, the warm water (a)   and the cold water ​ (b)   forming currents.

• rises
• sinks

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Match the following

• Decomposers

• Break down dead and decaying matter into simpler molecules that can be absorbed

• Scavengers

• Obtain energy from the sun or chemicals

• Heterotrophs

• Eat animals that have already died

• Autotrophs

• Depend on autotrophs or other organisms for energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Sandy Hook is an example of a _____ .

• Spit

• Delta

• Barrier Island

• Tombolo

Reorder the process of how longshore drift occurs:

• Waves approach the shore at an angle

• Waves break on beach

• Sediment begins to stir up

• Sediments move down the beach with backwash