Mangroves

Question 1

What are Red Mangrove Scientific name?

Answer 1

Rhizophora mangle

Question 2

Where do red mangroves grow?

Answer 2

They mostly grow in places that are permanently wet and salty

Question 3

What are Red mangroves identifying feature?

Answer 3

High Prop Roots

Question 4

What are Black Mangroves Scientific Name?

Answer 4

Avicennia Germinas

Question 5

Where do Black Mangroves Grow?

Answer 5

In heavy, black, oxygen poor soils and salty

Question 6

What are Black mangroves Identifying features?

Answer 6

Pneumatophores

Question 7

What are Pneumatophores?

Answer 7

They are thin vertically projects that grow from black mangroves roots underground and extent out wards around the tree

Question 8

What are White Mangroves scientific name?

Answer 8

Laguncularia racemosa

Question 9

Where do White mangrove grow?

Answer 9

They grow away from the sea they grow in less salty waters

Question 10

What are Button wood scientific name?

Answer 10

Corncarpus erectus

Question 11

Where do button wood grow?

Answer 11

Grows father inland or an isolated patches of rock or sand beside the sea where conditions are direr

Question 12

What is a Abiotic?

Answer 12

It is a non-living condition or thing

Question 13

What are the five abiotic factors that affect mangroves?

Answer 13

Salinity, temperature, flooding,light and Nutrients

Question 14

Salinity

Answer 14

This ability to exclude salts occur through filtration at the surface of the roof, root membranes prevents salt from entering and water to pass through this is effective at removing majority of salt from seawater

Question 15

Flooding

Answer 15

Some mangroves grow pencil-like roots that stick out of the dense, wet ground the snorkels, these breathing tubes pneumatophores, allows mangroves to cope with flooding by the tides

Question 16

Pneumatophores take in oxygen from

Answer 16

The airrunless they’re clogged or submerged for too long

Question 17

Temperature

Answer 17

Extreme temperature can limit plants process and can cause death to parts or all parts of the plants. Mangroves turn there leaves to avoid damage from the heat

Question 18

Light

Answer 18

Too much light or not enough light can effect plants process and cause temperature fluctuations

Question 19

What is biotic?

Answer 19

It is a living component of an ecosystem

Question 20

What are the two main biotic factors that affects mangroves?

Answer 20

Animals- Mangrove crab, Saltwater crocodile, Sea Snake, Snowy Egret
Plant

Question 21

The importants of the mangrove ecosystem.

Answer 21

Protects shoreline from damaging storms, hurricane winds, flooding and waves

Prevents erosion by stabilizing sediments with there tangled root system

Maintains water quality and clarity, filtering pollutions and trapping sediments originating from land

Serves as valuable nursery area for fish, spiny lobsters

Supports threatened and endangered species

Question 22

What are the natural and manmade threats to the mangroves ecosystem?

Answer 22

Urban development 
Pollution 
Storms
Climate Change
Invasive Species