This is formed when rocks and shells get crushed over time.
What is sand?
100
The gravity that the ocean feels from this thing in outer space is what causes the tides.
What is the moon?
100
These are the three jobs of the salt marsh
What is protection, a sponge, and a nursery?
100
This is a body of water surrounded by land on three sides and the ocean on one side
What is a sound?
100
This is the body of water that Greenwich touches.
What is the Long Island Sound?
200
This is the area between high tide and low tide.
What is the intertidal zone?
200
This plant that lives in rocky tide pool provides shade and shelter for lots of tide pool animals. Many tide pool animals also eat this plant.
What is seaweed?
200
This is a salt marsh animal that only lives in brackish water
What is a diamond backed terrapin?
200
This traveled from the North Pole, pushing gravel as it moved, to create the Long Island Sound.
What is a glacier?
200
This number is the sum of 3 and 5.
What is 8?
300
This is the line that shows where the highest point of high tide is
What is the strand line?
300
These animals eat with their feet and glue their heads to rocks.
What are barnacles?
300
These are plants that we ate at Cove Island that you can find in the salt marsh
What is a sea cucumber?
300
These are the three habitats we have studied of the Long Island Sound
What is the sandy beach, rocky tidal pool, and salt marsh
300
Your music teacher!
Who is Ms. Whitrock?
400
This is the number of high tides and low tides each day
What is twice each day?
400
This rocky tide pool animal looks like a brightly colored flower, but it actually catches smaller animals as they swim by and eats them. Clown fish also live in this animal sometimes.
What is a sea anemone?
400
These are large birds that live in the salt marsh
What is an egret or heron?
400
This is the ocean that the Long Island Sound is connected to
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
400
This is the process that caterpillars go through to become butterflies.
What is metamorphosis?
500
This is what animals have done over time so they can live on land or in the water
What is adapt?
500
This animal has five rays (which are like arms) and to move it uses thousands of suction cups that are on the bottom of the rays. It also looks like something we see in the night sky.
What is a sea star?
500
This is what we call marsh grass that has begun to rot and holds the rest of the grass in place
What is peat?
500
This is a partly closed body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it
What is an estuary?
500
This is the kind of boat we were on when we went sailing with SoundWaters in the Long Island Sound.