Estuaries
It is also a well-known river delta
What is the Nile Delta or the Mississippi Delta?
This is one of the abiotic factors that affect organisms in this region.
What is salinity, amount of water, substrate, etc.?
These are two organisms that have a symbiotic relationship.
The cleaner fish and fish being cleaned, the oriental sweetlips and the blue-streaked wrasse, the blind shrimp and the goby, etc. ?
Between sea lions and seals, they are the "eared" ones
What are sea lions?
This Latin root means "with" or "together"
What is "con?"
Tropical wetlands are also known as this.
What are mangrove forests?
This is one reason why bays are safe places for ships.
What is the weak wave action?
People think this stuff is completely inorganic, but it does have organic material - and organisms - in it.
What is detritus?
Between heterotrophs and autotrophs, they are at the bottom of the trophic pyramid.
What are autotrophs?
This Latin root means "good," and yes, there is some good stress.
What is "eu?"
These organisms can only tolerate a narrow range of salinity
What are stenohaline organisms?
They are the two sediments that make up mud.
What are silt and clay?
Decomposers could also be called this, after a very eco-friendly habit.
What are "recyclers?"
Between osmosis and diffusion, this one requires a semi-permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This term is from a Latin root that means "to live," as in "I live here."
What is "habitat?"
This is the major kind of grass in a salt marsh.
What is cord grass?
They are used by mussels to attach to a substrate.
What are byssal threads?
This process makes inorganic carbon available for life.
What is carbon fixation, or what is the carbon cycle?
Between abiotic factors and biotic factors, these are the ones that limit the upper range of organisms in the intertidal zone.
What are abiotic factors?
This Latin root means "again," but I don't want to sound like a broken . . . .
What is "re?"
Filter feeders are not prevalent in estuaries because for this reason.
What is the large amount of silt and debris that clogs up their filters?
This gives the region a somewhat striped appearance.
What is zonation?
Primary consumers eat this.
What are plants (primary producers)?
Between hamsters and gerbils, these are the ones that might keep you up at night.
What are hamsters?
This Latin root means "light" and early pix were actually made from light.
What is "photo?"