Intertidal Zones
Lies mostly above the high tide mark and the organisms are wetted mainly by wave splash and spray.
What is upper intertidal
What is Emersion?
Emersion is when a species or organism is witnessed being out of the water
Why is the upper intertidal often called the “Littorina zone”.
What is Periwinkles
How do some organisms withstand the waves during waveshock?
What is anchor themselves.
Where are other green, brown, and red algae found?
What is Immersion?
Immersion is when the organism is submerged completely in water.
Sea stars are the main predator to who?
What is mussel?
How do organisms who often deal with the blasts of waves and absence of water eat?
What is filter feed by eating dead organic matter or seaweed.
What is regularly submerged and then uncovered by the tides.
What is middle Intertidal
What is the operculum?
It is a lid like shell to seal themselves from the outside.
Where do pool fishes tend to hide?
What is shade and deeper areas.
What is a commonly used strategy by mollusks, where they use a protective covering to maintain water?
What is clamming strategy.
What is the most immersed area that is surrounded by water and predators like sea stars?
What is lower intertidal.
What is the process in low tides, where many organism lay at risk to open air and lose their water content
What is Desiccate?
What does the upper beach consists of.
What is isopods and amphipods.
What is the ability that allows organisms to disperse themselves or their offspring and allow organisms to be able to claim open space early.
What is dispersal
Which intertidal zone is where mussels are the most dominant competitors?
What is middle Intertidal zone
When sediment is lacking in oxygen what infauna burrows into the sand and cause a disturbance in the water?
What is Bioturbators.
The lower beach mainly consists of
What is Clams, polychaetes, and other animals
What is it called when animals that live in soft-bottom intertidal communities cannot attach themselves to solid sites so they must attach to the sediment instead.
What is infauna