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An estuary is a body of water that connects to the ocean allowing fresh and salt water to mix.

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A bivalve is a mollusk that has two shells held together by hinges and strong muscles.

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A univalve is a mollusk with a single shell

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Plankton are microscopic organisms that live in aquatic environments and cannot swim against the tide. It includes both phytoplankton (plant) and zooplankton (animal).

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Salinity is the measure of the amount of salts dissolved in seawater
(The picture is of students using a salinometer to measure salinity)

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intertidal zone

The intertidal zone is the area of the shoreline that is under water at high tide and exposed to the air at low tide.

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A spring tide occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so that the tides are higher or lower than average. It occurs during the full moon or new moon.

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Neap tides have a minimum range that occur during the first and third quarters of the moon

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A food web is a combination of food chains and shows the connection between all the living things within an ecosystem.

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A food chain is a single pathway connecting a producer with several levels of consumers.

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Crustaceans are mostly aquatic arthropods that include lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles. They have a segmented body, an exoskeleton, and paired, jointed limbs.

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Detritus is made up of tiny pieces of organic material that washes up onto the beach at high tide.

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Tide pools are small hollows in the beach that hold back a little bit of the sea as the tide recedes and become micro-habitats for small fish, crustaceans, worms and mollusks

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A mollusk is a soft bodied invertebrate. Some have shells for protection such as snails, oysters and clams. Others such as the octopus, do not.

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A salt marsh is a low coastal grassland frequently flooded by the tide. Plants that live here must be tolerant of high salt conditions.

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