Exam 26: Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems

Salt marshes

The Everglades National Park is one of the smallest natural wetlands in the world.

The ________ fringe occurs above the ocean along a rocky shoreline and is contacted by salt water only once every two weeks during spring tides.

The dominant herbivore in prairie marshes is the muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus).

The environment surrounding the roots of mangrove trees provides a sheltered nursery for the larvae and juvenile crabs,shrimp,and fish.

________ forests typically grow in the intertidal zone of tropical coasts where wave action is absent,sediments accumulate,and the muds are anoxic.

The ability to live in a semi-submerged state,have a high salinity tolerance,and possess hollow tubes for root oxygenation best describes the dominant eastern North American tidal plant

Freshwater wetlands dominated by woody vegetation are referred to as

The part of a rocky shore in which barnacles,oysters,mussels,limpets,and brown algae are most common is called the

Salinity is more variable in the intertidal zone of rocky shores than in sandy and muddy shores.

The major food sources for both deposit-feeding and filter-feeding organisms are