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What They Are?
Animals
Multiple Choice
Plants
Anything Goes!
100
What is the definition of Estuary?
What is the place where a freshwater environment and a saltwater environment meet
100
What type of animals do Estuary Ecosystems attract?
What are consumers, such as birds, mammals, and reptiles, as well as fish and other marine organisms.
100
Deep-ocean vent ecosystems depend on energy stored by what? A: photosynthesis B: algae C: bacteria D: tube worms
What is B, algae
100
What is one of the three producers in this ecosystem?
What is phytoplankton, land plants, or water plants
100
Wear does phytoplankton live?
What is near the surface of the ocean
200
Estuaries are _____ for many ocean organisms
What are nurseries
200
What do most ecosystems depend on?
What is phytoplankton
200
What can microorganisms in swamps and marshes do? A: clean polluted water B: both A and C C: act as natural water filters D: none of the above
What is B, both A and C
200
Why does sunlight affect plant growth?
What is it is shallow
200
What does spartina provide?
What is a habitat for many marine creatures
300
Where does most ocean life live?
What is the upper layer of the ocean
300
Where does many of the seafood eaten by the mid-Atlantic states?
What is the Chesapeake Bay Estuary in Maryland
300
What are Estuaries known as? A: the "Nurseries of the Sea" B: the "Big sea dimes" C: the "River in the sea" D: the "Helping Hand"
What is A, the "Nurseries of the Sea
300
DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE DAILY DOUBLE what types of plants grow in Estuaries?
What is algae and water plants
300
Why are Estuaries important to life in open ocean?
What is they help all types of organisms survive
400
What do oysters act like
What is coral reefs for a habitat
400
Why are Estuaries the ocean's most important ecosystems for humans?
They are where most seafood people eat are.
400
How are Estuaries important to other ecosystems? A: they provide light B: they provide food C: they get rid of bad bacteria D: they absorb rain
What is D: they absorb rain (and flood waters and slowly release them)
400
Where do coral reefs form?
What is warm, shallow, well-lit water
400
What provides food for many organisms?
What is algae and water plants
500
Name the six things that can be Estuaries
What are bays, inlets, river deltas, sounds, marshes, and swamps
500
Fill in the blanks: the ________ crab uses the _________ as a habitat. Hint: the habitat can also be a food source
What is blue, and oysters beds
500
Fill in the blank: the shelter from ocean predators make ideal places for young marine life to ______________ A: stay safe B: grow C: eat D: learn
What is B: grow
500
Why do all the plants grow well?
What is sunlight meets all of the water
500
Fill in the blank: per unit of area, shallow natural Estuaries produce as much living matter as the ____________
What is the most productive farmland.