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ABIOTIC FACTORS
HABITATS
LIFE IN THE ESTUARY
BARRIER BEACHES
POTPOURI
100
What is the average salinity of an estuary
What is 17 0/00 or 1.7%
100
Worms & clams are most likely to live in which estuarine habitat
What is mud flat
100
Organism of the mud flat with one oversized claw
What is fiddler crab
100
Zone where Spartina & Phragmites grow
What is salt marsh
100
Organism that has a soft abdomen & must borrow a snail shell to live in
What is Hermit Crab
200
Most of the salt in sea water is what 2 elements
What is Na & Cl
200
Name the estuary habitat that is completely submerged at high tide & exposed at low
What is mud flat
200
The most important plant of the salt marsh
What is Spartina (cord grass)
200
Zone where terrestrial plants are largest
What is Maritime Forest
200
Instrument used to measure salinity
What is Hydrometer
300
What is the term to describe water that is partly fresh & partly salt
What is brackish
300
Area of marsh with higher salinity upper or lower
What is lower
300
Organism more closely related to spiders & scorpions than to crabs
What is Horseshoe crab
300
Zone most affected by wave action
What is Littoral Zone
300
Define sessile
What is non-moving
400
What is the term that describes an organism that CAN tolerate salinity changes
What is euryhaline
400
In what specific estuary habitat do pipefish and seahorses reproduce?
What is seagrass beds (in NJ this would be eelgrass)
400
Organism whose inside of its shell was used as wampum (currency) by Lenni Lenape
What is hard clam (quahog)
400
Area between normal high & low tides
What is Littoral Zone
400
Plant pickled & eaten by early colonists
What is salt wort / glass wort
500
The Chesapeake Bay estuary is a drowned river valley also known as a
What is coastal plain estuary
500
Where would eelgrass be found
What is the bay
500
Mollusk that has developed primitive eyesight
What is bay scallop
500
Zone which is characterized by extreme temperatures, blowing sand, salt spray, low nutrients, and no shelter
What is Supralittoral Zone
500
Name 3 reasons that estuaries are important
What is habitat, stop-over for migrating birds, nursery grounds, spawning site, protection from predators, buffer to storm water, filters pollutants