Tides
Sand Dollars
Aquatic Biomes
100

When the moon is closest to Earth.

What is perigee?

100

The zones of the ocean where sand dollars live.

The benthic, intertidal zones.

100
A zone partially exposed to air and water with the moving of the tides.

What is the intertidal zone?

200

When the moon is farthest from Earth.

What is apogee?

200
Sand dollars stick half way out of the sand when doing this.

What does a feeding sand dollar look like?

200

What you call creatures that inhabit the benthic zone.

What are the benthos?
300

When the sun is closest to earth.

What is perihelion?

300

The type of sand dollar native to San Francisco

What is the eccentric sand dollar?

300

The deepest zone of the pelagic.

What is the abyssal zone?

400

I cause the tides more than other celestial bodies.

What is the moon?

400

Sand dollars, along with other benthic organisms, help other animals in their ecosystem by doing this.

What is nutrient recycling?

400

where light can penetrate for photosynthesis.

What is the photic zone?

500

I always possess two sets of spring and neap tides.

What is a lunar month?

500
These two things are the main building blocks of sand dollar shells.

What are calcium carbonate and connective tissue?

500

Where no light penetrates water.

What is the aphotic zone?