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| A semi-enclosed area at the mouth of a river where fresh water and seawater mix |
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| Species that can tolerate a wide range of salinities |
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| Species that can tolerate a narrow range of salinities |
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| Water that is less salty than salty that seawater but saltier than fresh water |
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| Estuarine areas of high elevations that are periodically covered with water |
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| Wide expanses of an estuary that are exposed during low tide |
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| Microscopic organisms living in between marine sediment particles |
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| Estuarine areas where water is present both during high and low tides |
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| are always in a tropical climate. |
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| Pencil thin root extensions on black mangroves |
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| grow in the lowest part of a salt marsh |
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| clog organs of filter feeders in mudflats |
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| Where juvenile fishes are found |
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| the excess flow of detritus to nearby ecosystems |
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| the reason ocean levels of the world rose to form most estuaries |
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| what is determined by bill length |
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| what is formed when sea water moves across bottom of estuary and freshwater across top |
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| The side with the most salinity in the Southern hemisphere |
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| extract oxygen for black mangroves |
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| caused by levels of missing water (True) |
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| An abundance of plants and macroscopic life |
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| what are present in mudflats (False) |
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| Large boulders in Montana |
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| Are not evidence of glaciers (False) |
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| Uniformitarian view (True) |
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| most common type of estuary (False) |
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| Estuary is a productive ecosystem because... |
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| many fish and shellfish found there, plenty of nutrients for primary producers, lots of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, enough detritus, and estuaries participate in outwelling, in which their excess resources flow into the ocean |
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