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| A long and narrow island that is built by waves along the coast. |
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| Shrubs and trees that live along the seashore in tropical and subtropical regions and tolerate inundation by seawater. |
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| A grassy area that extends along the shores of estuaries and sheltered coasts in temperate and subpolar regions. |
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| Salt-tolerant grasses, species of Spartina, that inhabit Salt Marshes. |
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| The area between highest and lowest tide. |
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| The presence of organisms within a particular range, as in the vertical zonation observed in the intertidal. |
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| The interaction that results when a resource is in the short supply and one organism uses the resource at the expense of another. |
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| The of an animal, or predator, eating another organism, or prey. |
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| A predatory species whose effects on its community are proportionally much greater than its abundance. |
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| Dinoflagellates that live within the tissues of reef corals and other marine animals |
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| The type of symbiosis in which both partners benefit from the relationship. |
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| A coral reef that develops a narrow band close to a shore. |
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| A type of coral reef that develops at some distance from the coast. |
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| A coral reef that develops as a ring around a central lagoon. |
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| A predator of reef corals. |
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| Decrease of seawater pH as a result of increased carbon dioxide. |
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| Any hydrogen and carbon compound (usually a chain) |
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| The increased concentration of non-biodegradable chemicals in the higher levels of the food chain |
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| Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) |
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| A zone 200 nautical miles wide along the coast where nations have exclusive rights to any resource. It was initiated by the United Nations. |
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| place where cold water and warm water are seperated. |
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| The upper layer of water that is mixed by wind, waves, and currents. |
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| Plankton that could be caught with a net. |
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| Special eyes that let midwater fish acute vison upward or downward vision. |
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| oranism that produce bioluminescence. |
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