Rocky Shore
Hard surface organisms can attach to
A way for animals to stay cool
What is burrowing?
A type of mangrove with propagules
What is a red mangrove?
The area of the ocean with the most light between 0 and 200 m
What is the epipelagic zone?
The process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces
What is weathering?
The area above the high tide mark where organisms only get sprayed with water
What is the splash zone?
When sand is easily moved by wind or water
What is unstable substrate?
A type of mangrove that has pneumatophores
What is a black mangrove?
The area of a coast between the high water mark and the lowest water mark on shore
What is the littoral zone?
When glaciers move over land picking up sediments then move them to a new location
What is ice erosion?
Type of rock that composes majority of rocky shores
What is igneous rock?
Risk to organisms due to porous sand
What is desiccation?
Mixture of seawater and freshwater that mangroves need to grow in
What is brackish water?
Most stable region of the shore
What is the lower shore?
What is biological weathering?
The way organisms arrange themselves in higher and lower positions based on their abilities to adapt
What is vertical zonation?
Main source of food for organisms
What is detritus?
Coast areas with warm waters all year that mangroves grow in
What are tropical estuarines?
Consists of the mid-tide and high-tide zones
What is the intertidal zone?
Process of depositing materials in a new location where they accumulate
What is sedimentation?
Steep to flat arrangement of rocks
What is a variable slope?
Material sand is made out of
What is silica?
What are lenticles?
Dependent upon the geology and exposure to erosion
What is the type of sea shore?
Landslides and avalanches
What is gravity erosion?