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Animals in salt marshes
Why humans connect to salt marshes
Plants
miscellaneous
Flooding and spring tides
100
What do marshes provide for animals?
Habitats
100
what do humans often use peat for?
fuel for fires
100
Name a marsh plant with pretty purple flowers
Sea lavender
100
the dark peat is formed by ______ and old leaves
roots
100
how many times a day do marshes flood
Two
200
Where do some animals live during the winter to stay alive?
Mud
200
Salt marshes used to be thought of as ____ land because there was so much mud nobody realized that they were important
Waste
200
Can you pick sea lavender?
No it's a protected species
200
Salt marshes convert carbon dioxide and water in the presence of chlorophyll and ______ in to plants
sunlight
200
Why do marshes flood twice a day
high tide
300
Marshes provide habitat for hundreds of different species of fish, shellfish, birds and ________
Mammals
300
Marshes can be destroyed from oil spills, highway construction and _______
fishing
300
Name one of the two common grasses that mark the salt marshes
chord grass or salt hay
300
marshes form where ______ meet the sea
rivers
300
Spring tides are associated with new and full ____
moons
400
the dark peat provides homes for animals true or false
True
400
Salt marshes can help humans because there are a lot of fish in marshes that we eat. true or false
true
400
which type of grass grows on lower elevation
chord
400
in addition to being an important habitat marshes are also important because they have a lot of ____
biodiversity
400
Only five to ____ spring tides completely flood the high marsh per month
eight
500
Name one of the primary consumers of salt marshes
periwinkle snails and grass shrimp
500
______ percent of commercial fish species, these are species humans like to eat depend on estuary's
seventy five
500
Which type of grass grows on higher elevation?
salt hay
500
Marshes can help in keeping our water clean and good for swimming true or false
true
500
Tidal flooding in just the right amount brings nutrients,dissolved oxygen and _____
moisture