Plants
Animals
Vocabulary
Human Impact
Other
100
An algae that will usually form a symbiotic relationship with other organisms in the tide pools.
What is a lichen?
100
A small echinoderm that can regenerate it's limbs should they be eaten or torn off by predators.
What is a starfish?
100
A relationship between two organisms in which one benefits while the other suffers.
What is parasitism?
100
Runoff waste created by humans that can travel to tide pools.
What is pollution?
100
This is found at most beaches.
Where can you find tide pools?
200
A large, brown seaweed variation.
What is kelp?
200
A living spike ball that eats mostly algae.
What is a sea urchin?
200
A relationship between living things where one species benefits while the other is neither harmed nor benefited.
What is commensalism?
200
The most common form of human's negative impact on tidal pools. Usually happens when people visiting the beach don't look where they're stepping.
What is trampling?
200
Two different water levels in tide pools.
What is high tide and low tide?
300
An underwater moss.
What is algae?
300
An animal with a single suction cup that anchors it to the ground and usually provides shelter for fish.
What is a sea anemone?
300
A simpler name for the intertidal zone?
What is a tide pool?
300
Sensitive plants and animals are killed.
What is the effect of pollution?
300
The name of snails found in tide pools. (And in the ocean)
What is a sea snail?
400
A complex algae that’s attached to the seafloor and flows towards the surface of the water.
What is seaweed?
400
A crustacean with large claws used for hunting and eating other animals in the tide pools.
What is a shore crab?
400
A symbiotic relationship between two living things where both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
400
What children who take animals (such as crabs and starfish) usually use them for. (Usually results in the animals death)
What are pets from the beach?
400
The type of ecosystem found in tide pools.
What is aquatic ecosystem?
500
A spiky bush found in tide pools.
What is a juncus?
500
A defense mechanism used by some animals in the tide pool to protect them from predators.
What is disguising as a plant?
500
The role or position a species has on the environment.
What is a niche?
500
Trampled plants, stolen animals, pollution, etc.
What is humans effect on the tide pools?
500
The amount of organisms in a certain area at a certain time.
What is the population?
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