What is a Coastal Zone
What is the Littoral Zone
Area from the beach cliffs out to 200 feet of water.
A coastline with bed rock
what is a rocky shore
Traveling and Having a fun time
What is Tourism
What is a provisioning Service? Provide 2 examples
Tangible things ecosystems provide us to harvest, sell, or use.
mushrooms, fish, seaweed, lobster. etc.
Name 3 risks to coastal zones
Development, Climate change, Flooding, oil spills, and many more.
What depth range is the Off shore area?
200 to about 60 feet of water
A coastline where you go with the family to swim, surf, and sun bathe
Sandy Beaches
Sourcing the material that goes in our cars
What is drilling oil
What is a regulating service, provide two examples
The controlling of climate and environmental conditions by ecosystems,
Sea breeze for temperature,
Forests for flooding
rain and trees
Ocean currents and fog
Name 3 ways we can preserve coastal zones
regulation, protest, action, clean ups, boycotts. etc.
What is the depth range of the near shore area
60 feet to where waves start to break (20 feet)
A place that filters water and acts as an animal nursery
What is a wet land?
What is a Coal Mine
What are supporting services, Provide 2 examples
Things that ecosystems do that support a financially valuable human action.
bees and pollination
rain and crops
soil and crops
What was a successful protest action in Nova Scotia to preserve our coastal zones?
Effluent pipe line, Alton Gas
What is the inter-tidal zone
The area between the high tide and the low tide
A shore that is characteristic of the Bay of Fundy at low tide.
what are Mud Flats
Provide at least 3 examples of how we extract energy from the ocean that are green (not oil or coal)
wind, solar, wave, tides
What are cultural services? Provide two examples
Recreation and Research-related value of ecosystems
What is one actions taken to protect or fix some coastal zones
Boat Harbour, Sydney Mines Tar Pit
How far in did we decide the coast goes?
~20 km, as judged by the width of PEI
A place where fresh water meets salt water
What is an Estuary
making fresh water from salt water
What is desalination
What is erosion and how do we prevent it?
Erosion is the wearing away of rock and soil through natural phenomena (rain wind etc.)
PLANT TREES
What are some actions you would like to do to preserve or remediate the coast line.
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