Habitat
Benefits
Restoration
Study
Wild Card
100
This is the word or water that is partly salt water and partly fresh water.
What is Brackish?
100
This is one benefit of mangroves on our shoreline.
There are several good answers.
100
This is how the word for the mangrove "seedlings" we planted is spelled.
What is p-r-o-p-a-g-u-l-e ?
100
This is the type of mangrove we are growing in our study.
What is red mangrove?
100
These are the two most common types of mangroves found here on Sanibel
What are red mangroves and black mangroves?
200
This is the salinity of ocean water, as measured in parts per thousand.
What is 30 parts per thousand?
200
This is one benefit of mangroves on our shoreline.
There are several good answers.
200
This is the name of the layer of decaying vegetation high in nutrients that mangroves grow in.
What is detritus?
200
For the purposes of our study, this is the salinity of fresh water.
What is zero?
200
What are the three types of mangrove trees?
What are red, black, and white mangroves?
300
As water evaporates from our bins, the group studying salinity will have to add more, to replace it. This is the salinity of the water they should add.
What is zero?
300
Name one animal known to depend on the mangroves for its habitat.
There are several good answers.
300
This is the percentage of tropical shorelines protected by mangrove trees.
What is 70% ?
300
What is the word for the measure of the concentration of salt in water?
What is salinity?
300
This is how you spell Richard F's last name.
What is F-i-n-k-e-l ?
400
This is the salinity of brackish water, as measured in percentage.
What is 1.5% ?
400
This is what the tool shown here is used to measure.
What is salinity?
400
This is the name of the instrument shown here.
What is a refractometer?
400
This is the organization that Mr. Finkel works for, that is promoting mangrove restoration.
What is SCCF?
500
As saline water evaporates from our bins, if no water is added back to replace it, this is what the salinity of the remaining water will be.
What is too high?
500
This is the name of the other tool, shown, that measures salinity.
What is a hydrometer?
500
This is what SCCF stands for.
What is the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation?