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Sound to Sea Vocab
Sound to Sea Vocab 1
Question | Answer |
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Aeration | To supply with air or expose to oxygen |
Barrier Islands | any low sandy island that is parallel to the mainland and protects it from storms |
Bivalve | a mollusk, such as an oyster or clam, that has a shell consisting of two hinged valves |
Blue crab | an edible crab, having a dark green body and blueish legs, found along the atlantic and gulf coasts of north america |
Brackish | containing a mixture of salt water and fresh water |
carnivore | a flesh eating animal |
Catfish | A type of fish characterized by barbels around the mouth and an absence of scales |
community | An assemblage of interacting populations occupying a given area |
Consumer | An organism that feeds on plants or other animals |
Crustacean | Aquatic arthropod having a body covered in a hard shell or crust including lobsters, srimps, crabs, barnacles, and wood lice |
Decomposer | an organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into smaller substances |
Detritus | Any disintegrated materian; Debrins |
Ecology | branch of biology dealing with realations and interactions between organisms and their environment |
Egret | unusually whire heron that grows long graceful plumes during breeding season |
Estuary | the part o the mouth of a river in which the river's currents meet the sea's tide. (inlet of the sea at lower end of the river) |