Rocky Shores
Due to the fast ______, there is little to no sedimentation.
What is water flow?
Due to the high erosion and slow water flow, there is high ______.
What is sedimentation?
These shores are in __________, which is why weathering and erosion does not occur here.
Mangroves act as a ______ for organisms.
What is a nesting site?
The process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The highest point of these shores
What is the Splash Zone?
What animals do to prevent desiccation.
What is burrowing?
This material makes up most of muddy shores.
What is fine silt?
This type of mangrove tree excretes salt crystals through its leaves.
What are black mangroves?
The process of carrying rocks to a new location.
What is erosion?
This occurs to an animal when temperatures are high.
What is desiccation?
These type of animals are prominent at sandy shores due to the lack of producers.
What are detrivores?
What are brakish waters?
The type of reproduction which a mangrove preforms.
What is viviparous reproduction?
This type of erosion picks up rocks as they move over land, then into the ocean.
These organisms attach their heads onto the rocks.
What are barnacles?
The _____ of this shore is gradual.
What is slope?
These shores have a fan-like structure to it
What are deltas?
Mangroves typically live between __N and __S. (Number answer)
What is 25?
This factor is the main attributer to chemical weathering
What is acid rain?
The name of the zone between the high and low water mark.
What is the littoral zone?
Sandy shores are typically a ____ environment
What is unstable?
The material which muddy shores makes up accumulates into this.
What is mud?
These roots stick up from the soil from black mangrove trees.
What are pneumatophores?
An organism that does biological weathering
What are lichens?