Geography
Organisms
Water Quality
Zones
Vocab
100
CT's natural breakwater protects us from ocean storms such as Hurricane Sandy
What is Long Island
100
A marine animal lives in salt water, while an animal that lives in freshwater is _____________.
What is aquatic?
100
The percentage of dissolved minerals in a body of water
What is salinity
100
Long Island Sound is an example of this habitat
What is estuary
100
neap
What is lowest of lowtides
200
Most of Danbury is found in this river's watershed
What is Housatonic
200
This organism provides for bay scallops and many other animals
What is eel grass?
200
The result is water with low oxygen content
What is hypoxia
200
tidal creek
What is free flowing avenue winds through an estuary
200
grazer
What isopod chain run by photosynthesis
300
This land mass divides the Northeast tidal zones into 2 distinct types.
What is Cape Cod
300
This species of grass is the indicator species of most inland wetlands and high marsh
What is Phragmites
300
Organic debris formed in marsh: many waterborne organisms use it as a crucial food source.
What is detritus
300
mudflat
What is gently sloping, silty sediment zone with little w/ little vegetation
300
epiphyte
What is organism grows attached to another
400
This river lows north. Connects Danbury to the Housatonic
What is The Still River
400
A waterborne pollutant or discharge of any kind
What is effluent
400
salt marsh
What is generally flat beds of salt resistant vegatation
400
spartina
What is indicator in low marsh; closest to water
500
The two tidal systems found in the Northeastern region of the United States are the Atlantic Temperate and the _____________.
What is Atlantic Boreal
500
An organism living primarily in sediment, such as a sand worm.
What is infaunal
500
A government agency that administered the Long Island Sound Study.
What is EPA
500
wrack line
What is indicates the landward extent of tides.
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