The Root of the Matter
Red mangroves use these to absorb air through the pores in bark.
What are Lenticels?
This is the term for the diluted water found in muddy shores, deltas, and estuaries.
What is Brackish?
Sandy shores can create challenges for organisms, such as the changing temperatures and changing this.
What is Light Intensity?
Rocky shores are the most resistant to this (the process of moving sediment to another location).
What is Erosion?
This is the process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces.
Mangroves must be able to adapt to a low environment of this.
What is Oxygen?
The similarity between these are that they are both where fresh water rivers meet salt water ocean.
What are Estuaries and Deltas?
To prevent air exposure, hide from predators, and keep cool, organisms do this.
What is Burrow?
Rocky shores are mostly composed of these weathering-resistant substrates.
What are Granite and Igneous Rock?
This type of erosion is when glaciers move over land, picking up and moving sediment.
What is Ice Erosion?
This is the mangrove's reproductive process where they drop propagules which float horizontally for 40 days.
What is Viviparous?
This is the process in muddy shores where water moves very slowly, allowing sediment to be deposited on the bottom.
What is Sedimentation?
The constant changing from wind and water causes sandy shores to be this term meaning out-of-balance.
What is Unstable?
Organisms on rocky shores risk drying out due to air exposure, which is otherwise known as this.
What is Desiccation?
This zone is the area of a coast between the high water mark and the lowest water mark on the shore.
Mangroves are beneficial to ecological communities because of this, meaning it holds carbon dioxide.
What is Carbon Sequestration?
Muddy shores have little to no erosion because there is very little this on them.
What is Wave Action?
Due to the lack of available meals, most animals in sandy shores rely on organic material from the sand, making them this.
What are Detrivores?
Organisms arrange themselves with this, basing it on factors like drying out, temperatures, and predators. It reduces competition for space.
What is Vertical Zonation?
This type of weathering is done by living organisms. For example, trees may grow in the cracks of a sidewalk.
What is Biological Weathering?
This is considered a threat to mangroves, as it is the process of people cutting down mangroves for charcoal, pulp, paper, and personal needs.
What are Mud Flats?
What is Sandstone?
Organisms hardly get water in this zone located above the high tide mark.
What is Gravity Erosion?