Wave Wonders
What causes ocean waves?
What is Wind?
What type of plants help hold sand in place on coastal shorelines?
What is a seawall made of?
What is concrete, rock, or wood?
Which lasts longer: Living or Seawall?
What is living shorelines?
What is one way humans can protect beaches?
What is plant vegetation and pick up litter?
When waves hit a shoreline, what can they move?
What is sand, rocks, and shells?
What do oyster reefs or mangroves do for coastlines?
What's the main purpose of a seawall?
What is, to block/deflect waves and protect buildings?
Which helps more animals - a seawall or living shoreline?
What is living shoreline?
What do scientists measure with quadrats and transects?
What is plants, sediment, and animal abundance?
What word describes the wearing away of land by water?
What is Erosion?
True or False: Plants can stop ALL erosion.
False
True or False: Seawalls stop erosion forever.
False
How can people combine nature and seawalls?
What is adding plants and oysters in front of seawalls?
What is the River next to your school called?
What is Middle river?
What is... they have more energy and larger waves?
What's one animal that benefits from a living shoreline?
What is fish, crabs, and birds?
What happens to waves when they hit a seawall?
What is, they bounce back and can cause erosion?
What's one benefit of a living shoreline that seawalls don't provide?
What is habitat for wildlife?
Why do we study erosion and seawalls?
What is to protect people, their homes, and NATURE?
What is the name of the process where waves drop sand back down?
What is deposition?
What is a living shoreline?
What is, a natural barrier made of plants and hardened shorelines to protect from erosion?
What is, they reflect waves and remove the sand over time?
What happens when a seawall replaces a dune?
What is habitat loss?
How many mangrove species are there in South FL? (name them)
What is 3: Red, Black, & White?