Who am I?
I have lots of legs and love to eat mussels, most of all.
A sea star uses these to stick itself to the rocks.
What are suction cups?
Another name for drying out.
What is desiccation?
The part of the intertidal zone that only gets wet from surf and rain.
An organism which is connected to a whole food web, in some way.
What is a keystone species?
I use cement to attach myself to rocks, docks and even whales.
What is a barnacle?
Organisms that live in marine regions must be able to tolerate large amounts of this mineral.
What is salt?
What is photosynthesis?
The part of the intertidal zone that is only exposed to air when the tide goes out.
What is the low tide zone?
A herring gull, which is the at the top of the intertidal zone food chain, is one of this kind of predator.
What is an apex predator?
I get my name for the huge claw I have, which looks like a violin.
What is a fiddler crab?
To keep from drying out, mussels and barnacles do this.
What is close their shells?
The process where sea water evaporates, condenses into clouds and forms rain is called the _______ cycle.
What is water?
The part of the intertidal zone that is exposed to the open air twice a day, and totally submerged, twice a day, every day.
What is the high tide zone?
Sea stars are a keystone species because they keep down the population of this organism.
What are mussels?
I am a shore bird that is known for eating whatever I can find, including people's lunches, garbage, crabs and baby birds.
What is a gull?
When the tide goes out, some creatures do this to get away from the sun.
What is burrow into the sand?
When an organism attaches itself permanently to a surface, it is called this.
What is sessile?
The object in space which controls high and low tides.
What is the moon?
Barnacles, and other organisms that help us measure the health of an ecosystem, are called this.
What are indicator species?
What is algae?
Crabs, which have gills, carry a little of this under their shell to help them during low tide.
What is water?
The cycle where the pull of the moon on the ocean causes the sea level to rise and fall regularly.
What is tides?
The place where the ocean meets the land.
What is the intertidal zone?
Although this is the name of an evil character in Sponge Bob Squarepants, this one-celled organism is food for many marine animals.
What is plankton?