Vocabulary
Rivers meet the sea here.
Estuary
True or False: Spartina grass can change colors.
True.
These animals live on spartina grass.
Periwinkle snails
The difference between predator and prey.
Predator eats prey. Predators are larger animals that hunt and their food is called prey.
Knobbed whelk shells resemble this part of your hand.
Knuckles
Animals that live somewhere where they are not supposed to.
Invasive
What kind of grass can survive in salt water marshes.
Spartina
Oysters close their shells during low tide so they do not
dry out
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web.
A food chain is for a specific animal and a food web is never-ending.
Nature soup is another name for the dead and eroding stuff in the marsh.
Detritus
Blue crabs are known as these types of eaters because they eat whatever they can find.
Scavengers
What is the flounder's magical eye adaptation?
Eyes are on both sides of the head and then move to one side.
Oysters are what type of feeders
Filter
Resurrection ferns are a type of epiphite (ep-i-fight) that only need air and water to grow. What is another type of this that grows on live oak tree branches?
Spanish moss
Four
Wading birds.
As a pelican ages, its head does this which is similar to a human.
Turns its hair white.
Its claws: a male has 1 large claw and 1 small claw. Females have 2 smaller claws.
This type of marsh happens between low and high tides.
Tidal marsh.
Red
The large pouch of a pelican's bill that helps it scoop up fish is called what:
Gular
Periwinkle snails can spend up to how long on one blade of spartina grass?
Their whole life
Shrimp have this many sets of legs.
Two. One set for walking. One set for swimming.
Is there more salt in the ocean or marsh?
Salt marshes
Fiddler crabs leave this clue as to where they are hiding in the mud.
Small balls of mud outside their hole.