Zones
Intertidal
What is the area between the high tide and low tide?
A mixture of fresh and salt water.
What is Brackish water.
The reef is located next to Australia.
The Great Barrier Reef is located next to what country?
What is an Estuary?
This area of the ocean receives no light.
What is the aphotic zone?
The amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is Salinity?
The three main kinds of reefs.
What are Barrier, Fringing, and atolls?
Estuaries are a great place to live when it comes to these kinds of fish.
When it comes to juvenile fish homes.
This area has lots of salty mist.
Skeleton of a dead coral.
Example of a biotic factor.
____ and ____ water is perfect for coral reefs.
What is warm and clear water?
This estuary is known for its grasses.
What is a salt marsh?
This zone is the most productive and is the most abundant with life.
What is the Neritic zone?
Plastic pollution from humans are this kind of factor.
Example of an abiotic factor.
A ring of coral growing around a sunken island.
What is an Atoll reef?
Constant wave action is something you would not find in this habitat flush with water and dirt.
What is a mudflat?
This is the zone at the bottom of any marine habitat.
What is the benthic zone?
The ability for an animal to blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
A tiny mound of tissue that contains a sac-like digestive tract and a mouth.
What is a coral polyp?
Mangrove swamps are abundant around these Florida island.
What are the Florida Keys?