Rocky Intertidal Zones

What are the components of a tide pool?

• Rocks

• Water

• Plants & Animals

• All the above

What can you do to help protect this fragile ecosystem?

• Don't step on the plants or animals

• Don't litter

• Leave the plants and animals in the tide pools

• All of the above

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

• Moisture

• Temperature

• Salinity

• All of the above

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Ecosystem found on marine shorelines alternating between high and low tide

• Abyssal Zone

• Coral Reef

• Intertidal Zone

• Open Ocean

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A tide pool is

• always the same.

• always changing.

• extreme and always changing.

• always the same and never changing.

Can pollution harm tide pools?

• Yes

• No

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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

What are the 4 areas of the Rocky Shore line?

• the spray zone, High intertidal zone,

  Middle intertidal zone and low intertidal zone

• The spray zone, zone 1, zone 2, zone 3

• the lowest intertidal zone the lower intertidal zone, the next intertidal zone, the medium intertidal zone

• medium, small, large, and extra large zones

Which of the following organisms are found abundantly on a rocky shoreline?

• Sea Urchins

• Mussels

• Sea stars

• All answers

Which of the following adaptations is crucial for organisms living in rocky intertidal zones?

• Ability to withstand desiccation

• Ability to fly

• Ability to photosynthesize

• Ability to live in freshwater

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