Types of mangroves
Mangrove found closest to the sea
What is a red mangrove
Helps a black mangrove adapt to the anaerobic mud flats
What is pneumatophores
Base of mangrove ecosystem begins with this common plant?
What is mangrove leaves?
This group of consumers gives the mangroves its characteristic smell
Decomposers
Area between high tide and low tide
What is the intertidal zone
Mangrove that has nectaries at the base of its petiole
What is a white mangrove
Mangroves that come back after being cut down and destroyed
What is persistent colonizers
A scavenger found in the mud flats of the roots system of mangroves that burrows during high tide
What is crabs
Dorsal shell of a crab is called
What is a carapace
What is the term given to the act of mangroves producing land.
Succession
Mangrove has the greatest amount of pneumatophores
What is black mangrove
This black and white bird can be found wading in the mangroves.
What is Black Necked Stilt.
This type of consumer feeds on detritus
What is detritivore
Type of soil that mangroves live in
What is anoxic?
A nutrient rich zone and nursery area of the ocean that is a mix between saltwater and freshwater
What is an estuary
Red mangroves have this root adaptation
What is prop roots
Many sea turtles mistakenly eat plastic, what animal does the sea turtle mistake plastic for?
What is jellyfish
adaptation of mangroves that allows mangroves to remove excess salt from a mangrove leaf
What is salt pores
Mangrove leaves have a waxy layer that helps them retain water and slow down evaporation
What is waxy cuticle
Process of seed germinating while still on the mangrove tree
What is vivipary
What is the name of the tanning agent that mangroves help to make?
Clutch
What juvenile fish found in the mangroves is now under a closed season?
What is a Nassau Grouper
Between which two lines of latitude are the majority of the world's mangroves found?
What is a Tropic of Cancer and Tropic and Capricorn