Mangrove

Question 0

Aerobic

Answer 0

With oxygen

Question 1

Anaerobic

Answer 1

Without oxygen

Question 2

Buffer zone

Answer 2

Leaves a corridor along the beach that protects buildings from winds, waves and tides and allows animals to migrate

Question 3

Caye

Answer 3

Island

Question 4

Coppicing

Answer 4

Resprouting from a stump

Question 5

Detritus

Answer 5

Broken plant and animal fragments

Question 6

Dredging spoils

Answer 6

When sediment from the ocean is dumped on mangrove roots and smothers them

Question 7

Estuary

Answer 7

Where salt water and freshwater mix

Question 8

Guano

Answer 8

Bird droppings

Question 9

Ghost fishing

Answer 9

When nets keep on killing long after they have been lost

Question 10

Hydrochory

Answer 10

Dispersal of seeds by water

Question 11

Intertidal zone

Answer 11

Area between low and high tide

Question 12

Natural resources

Answer 12

Made by nature

Question 13

Nutrients

Answer 13

Nitrates and phosphates used for growth by plants

Question 14

Persistent colonizer

Answer 14

Trees that come back even after they have been cut down

Question 15

Pnuematophores

Answer 15

Breathing roots used by mangroves to bring air to their roots

Question 16

Propagules

Answer 16

Germinated seeds that form a root while still on the tree

Question 17

Sediment

Answer 17

Soil, dirt, coral, sand, particulate matter that makes up various substrates

Question 18

Spawn

Answer 18

To reproduce, breed or lay eggs

Question 19

Tannin

Answer 19

Gives the red mangrove it’s color, used to tan hides

Question 20

Vivipary

Answer 20

The process by which a mangrove seed germinates while still on the tree