A ________ is a type of sandy shore ecosystem.

You can find barnacles in:

You can find turtles in:

Which gives the correct order of the zones as you move from SEA to LAND?

1. Lower Intertidal Zone

2. Spray Zone

3. Subtidal Zone

4. Upper Intertidal Zone

Sandy beaches are made up of huge pieces of rock.

In which zone of the seashore is a rocky shore ecosystem located?

All of the following are abiotic factors that affect organisms in a rocky shore except______.

Competition for which resource is a dominant factor in the rocky intertidal zone?

Which is considered a keystone predator in the middle intertidal zone?

The lower limit of the intertidal zone is the:

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

Only exposed during low tide; contains the highest biodiversity

The Splash Zone can be described as

Which organism is pictured?

The pattern of species living only in particular areas in the intertidal zone is called

What does it mean for a species to be sessile?

This term means being out of the water; exposed to air

Which of the following is an adaptation of rocky shore organisms to prevent drying out?

Burrowing protects rocky shore organisms from all of the following EXCEPT…

The pattern of species living only in particular areas is a feature of what community?

Which of the following is NOT a problem that tide pool organisms must deal with at low tide?

The only littoral zone classified as unstable.

The following littoral zone(s) are classified as depositional, except:

Sandy beaches are so harsh that no small animals, even meiofauna, can survive between their sand grains.

What is the main adaptation seen in organisms in a sandy shore?

__________________________ is the area where a river meets the ocean.

Seagrasses have a root system that transports nutrients through its flesh.

Which of the following is NOT an adaptation to avoid drying out?

1. What do you call the semi-enclosed area where fresh water from a river meets salty water from the sea.

4. Occur in the upper coastal intertidal zone between the land and the sea and that are covered by salty or brackish water for at least part of the time.

5. It is located along the edges of the salt marsh. This harsh habitat is covered by water at flood high tide and exposed to the scorching sun at ebb (low) tide. It consists of a soggy substrate made up of clay and silt that is deposited during slack tide.

It is a type of estuary when a basin is formed through subsidence of below-sea level land created by geological forces along fault lines where ocean water rush in mixed with fresh water from nearby rivers and streams through the natural depressions and channels .

Which of the following is an adaptation of organisms in the intertidal zone to high-wave action?

Plants are important to the estuary. Why?

What is the defining difference between the marine, freshwater, and estuary biomes?

Why is it important that plants like cattails and mangroves live only in the region of the estuary that is brackish water and stays partly flooded during the day?

Why does it matter how much salt is in the water for organisms?

Why is it important that plants and animals only live in a certain part of the estuary, like near the river, in the brackish water, or by the ocean?

Why is there usually a lot of mud in some parts of the estuary?

Pick all the types of estuaries:

It is an estuary that is formed when sea levels rise and fill in an existing river valley near a flat, low-lying piece of land next to the ocean.

It is an estuary that is formed thru glaciers that have cut through forming a long, deep, narrow body of water that reaches far inland.

True or False: Bays, harbors, sounds, and inlets are all estuaries

Name the coast.

Name the coast.

Name the coast.

Name the coast.

What are 3 common names of Mangrove?

How can Mangroves stand still in the waves?

Which of the following is not part of the harsh environments mangroves endure

Which of the following is not an adaptation of mangroves

Mangroves provide a _________________________for small fish before they swim out to the nearby reefs or open ocean.

Mangrove trees are one of the only type of _____ that is adapted to grow in the salty water.

What are the threat of mangrove forest ?

What type of root is this?

What type of root is this?

What type of root is this?

What type of root is this?

What type of root is this?

What's the difference between a seaweed and a seagrass?

Which of the following are the methods for seagrass assessment? (2 or more correct answers)

What is the other term for the running stolon of seagrass?

Seagrass are anchored to a hard substrate by a root-like structure called holdfast.

Seagrasses spend their entire life cycle underwater.

A coral polyp is actually

Most coral reefs are ______________.

Identify this type of reef.

Clue: They are located very close to the shore on mainland

Identify this type of reef.

Clue: Coral reef structures forming roughly parallel to a shore and separated from it by a lagoon or other body of water.

Identify this type of reef.

The following are the methods in exploring/studying coral reefs, except

This is a reef zone that is typically deeper in barrier reefs and atolls while shallower in fringing

This is a reef zone that is slopy and is facing the open ocean (present in the three types of reefs)

This is a reef zone that is the shallower area and largest, most distinctive habitats on coral reefs