| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Deep Sea | Dragon fish, long nose Chimerra, angler fish, Logger fishm crab,shrimp, & octopuss live here. |
| Kelp Forest | Brown Cup Coral, Club tipped Anemone, sea otters, light bulb tunicates, sea star, Garhaldi whales live here. Torpedo ray and sunflower. Grows in cold water & can float or build a forest. Nusery forest. |
| Dunes & Beaches | Extreme environment, sand can be 150 degrees. They hold and protect it with sea oats.Blows with wind, protect beach from erosion, seagulls, crabs live here and turtles live eggs here. Oil spills and pollution is a problem here too. |
| Salt Marshes | SC has the most of this on the east coast. Corp grass is a common plant here, oysterbeds, snails, fiddler crabs, herons, white egrets live here. |
| Marine Biology | Every marine organisms can be classified by where they live, and how they move. |
| Deep Sea(Hydrothemal Vents) | Underwater geysers, plant plankton use chemosythesis to survive, and blows out heat and sulfer. |
| Open Ocean | Sargaso weeds is an algae that floats in water (nusery) & grows in warm water. |
| Nusery Habitat | provides food and habitat for baby animals |
| Seagrass Beds | Shallow, tropical water, calm water is where it grows. Flimsy streams & Many endangered species eat this. Least protected & least known. |
| Sand Sharing | Sand goes from north to south. |
| Rocky shores and tidepools | animals must survive waves, exposed to sun, crabs, shell animals, sea stars, fish, anemones, muscles, kelp, seaweed, and algae. |
| Coral Reefs | Millions of small animals created this. In order to build upon it the temperature needs to be 82 degrees and shallow. |
| Coral Pollups | They have stinging cells used to catch plankton. |
| Symbiosis | Zooxanthellae gets a place to live and coral gets nutrients. |
| Zooxanthellae | Algae |
| Cord grass | The most abundant & important grass. It is the basis of the food chain. |
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