Misc Vocabualry
What is an Estuary
Creatures of the Estuary
Plants of the Estuary
Microscopic World of the Estuary
100
The measure of suspended solids in the water. It influences water clarity.
What is turbidity?
100
A partially enclosed area where fresh water and salt water mix.
https://www.stanleymartin.com/our-communities/ projectdetail.asp?ProjectGroupID=41&Metro AreaID=1008
What is an estuary?
100
Organisms that live on the bottom or near the bottom of the estuary/ocean are called ______ .
http://smallscience.hbcse.tifr.res.in/sea-anemone-and-the-clownfish/
What are benthos (benthic organisms)?
100
Large species of multi-cellular algae that appear similar to vascular plants.
What is seaweed (also called macro-algae)?
100
Organisms that drift in the water; they cannot swim out of a current.
https://justkeepdrifting.wordpress.com/fun-facts-about-plankton/
What is plankton?
200
The term that refers to animals that are not able to move around, as they are fastened to a solid surface.
What is sessile?
200
What is .5 - 30 PPT.
Fresh water is 0 PPT and Ocean Water is about 35 PPT. Water in an estuary runs somewhere in between.
200
Organisms that use the entire water column are called _______ .
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0302/Shark-attacks-worldwide-bites-are-up-fatalities-down
What are pelagic organisms?
200
The only flowering plant that spends its entire life under the water and is one of the most productive communities on Earth.
200
The two major categories of plankton.
https://justkeepdrifting.wordpress.com/fun-facts-about-plankton/
What is phytoplankton and zooplankton?
300
The benthic (bottom) habitat or sediment in an ecosystem.
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/04/21/50-reefs-protect-coral/
What is subtrate?
300
Salinity fluctuations and animal behavior in an estuary is the result of _______.
https://www.tes.com/lessons/lKs-w1KWOvXDwQ /fiddler-crabs
What is the tide?
300
The phylum Cnidaria includes organisms that possess stinging cells called nematocysts. Three commonly seen groups of Cnidarians are 1._____ , 2._____, and 3._____ .
1. What is the Class Scyphozoa (true jelly fish)?
2. What is the Class Anthozoa are (corals and sea anemones)?
3. What is the Class Hydrozoa (hydra, Portuguese-Man-Of-War)?
4. What is the Class Cubozoa (box jellies)?
https://www.natgeokids.com/nz/discover/animals/sea-life/jellyfish-facts/
300
_________ , _________, and _______ are the three types of floral based habitats found in Florida.
What are seagrass beds, tidal marshes (salt marshes) and tidal swamps (mangrove swamps)?
300
Three different types of microscopic plankton.
What are diatoms, dinoflagellates and marine larvae (baby marine animals)?
400
An organisms that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm. They can harm the environment, the economy, or even human health.
What are invasive species?
400
The estuarine environment is a harsh one. One reason is that it is _______ because of the organic, muddy substrate found there.
What is anoxic (low oxygen)?
400
What is the Phylum Porifera?
400
Florida has four dominant salt marsh species. They are categorized as rushes, sedges or grasses. Two of these are ________ and _______ .
What is Black needle rush?
What is Saltmeadow cord grass?
What is Smooth cord grass?
What is Sawgrass?
400
Two ecosystem services that plankton provide.
What is the base of the marine food chain?
What is atmospheric oxygen?
500
The area of a seashore/estuary that is covered at high tide and uncovered at low tide. The area located between high tide and low tide.
What is intertidal?
500
Estuaries provide many ecosystem services. Three of these would be 1.______, 2._______ and 3.______.
1. What is the nursery of the oceans?
2. What is a biological filter that cleans the water?
3. What prevents erosion?
500
Three classes of the Phylum Mollusca are 1._____, 2._____, and 3._____ .
1. What is the Class Gastropoda (snails and sea slug)?
2. What is the Class Bivalvia (clams, oysters and such)?
3. What is the Class Cephalopoda (squids, octopods and nautiluses)?
4. What is the Class Polyplacophora (chitons)?
500
The red mangrove tree has roots called 1.______ and the black mangrove tree has roots called 2.______.
https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Red-Mangrove
1. What are prop roots?
2. What are pneumatophores?
500
A/an _______ occurs when simple photosynthetic organisms that live in the sea and freshwater grow out of control producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds.
What is an algae bloom (red or brown tide)?