What water body?
This is where the Sargasso Sea is located.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Define biodiversity.
What is a large variety of living organisms?
The abilty to create light is called.
What is biolumenescence?
These are the sand mounds behind the flat beach?
What are dunes?
This caused Florida's shape to change over time?
What are ice ages?
Vary greatly in size depending on season and are frequently ringed by a marsh.
What are lakes and ponds?
This water body sits just south of the Florida peninsula.
What is Florida Bay?
Coral get 90% of their nutriets from this organism.
What is algae?
No plants grow in the deep ocean for this reason.
What is lack of light?
Dunes protect the area behind them from...
What are salt spray and strong winds?
The water surrounding Florida makes our climate.
What are mild and moist?
This area is where a freshwater river meets the ocean.
What is an estuary?
This lake is connected to the ocean by the Caloosahatchee and the St. Lucie rivers.
What is Lake Okechobee?
The shape of a coral's body is like an opened can and is called a...
What is polyp?
A necessary body adaptation for the extreme pressure of the deep ocean.
What are fluid filled spaces?
This area of the beach is always under water.
What is the lower beach?
Explain how barrier islands protect the mainland.
What is they absorb the energy and impact of storms and wind?
This wooded, always wet area provides flood protection.
What is a swamp?
The Sargasso Sea is created by
What are ocean currents?
A coral builds a structure for protection out of?
What are minerals?
What is a size variation that is helpful to deep ocean animals?
What is gigantism or minaturization?
What area of the beach will you find the frack line?
The upper beach?
During an ice age Florida's shape gets...
What is bigger?
This natural phenomenon caused by the erosion of limestone, frequently opens a spring.
What is a sinkhole?
Name three aquatic environments that are great for juveniles to grow up.
What are estuaries, coral reefs and the Sargasso Sea?
Describe coral's response to water that is too warm.
Coral spit out the algae that is nourishing them and die.
What are the openings called where gas from the earth's interior escapes?
What are vents?
This area of the beach is where turtles try to lay their eggs.
What is upper beach or dunes if they can reach them?
Describe three actions you could take to make our beaches safer for nesting turtles this year.
What are filling in holes, smoothing over hills, not using lights at night and picking up litter?
Describe a watershed.
What is an area of land that drains into a specific water body?