TRANSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: ESTUARIES, SALT MARSHES, MANGROVE FORESTS, FRESHWATER WETLANDS

Question 1

Are found whenever rivers meets the sea

Answer 1

Estuaries

Question 2

Are concentrated along low-lying coasts with sandy shores. And may he associated with the mouth of rivers.

Answer 2

Salt Marshes and Mangrove Forests

Question 3

What are in transitional environments?

Answer 3

Estuaries, Salt Marshes, Mangrove Forests, Freshwater Wetlands

Question 4

Occupy low-lying areas with landscape. Examples are swamp and marshes. Generally inundated with water.

Answer 4

Freshwater Wetlands

Question 5

Can form whenever runoff water collect in low lying areas

Answer 5

Freshwater Marshes

Question 6

Concentrated along sandy shores

Answer 6

Salt Marshes

Question 7

From temperate to high latitudes

Answer 7

Salt Marshes

Question 8

Associated with the terrestrial climates of the tropical rainforest, TDF, TS, AND S. Due to mainly it sensitivity with the _____

Answer 8

Mangroves, frost

Question 9

Are channels the fill and empty with the tides

Answer 9

Tidal Creeks

Question 10

Where tidal creeks are bordered to

Answer 10

Leeves

Question 11

Beyond the leeves and include salt pans

Answer 11

Marsh Flats

Question 12

Periodically collect water they eventually evaporates. Leaving a layer of salt

Answer 12

Salt pans

Question 13

Example of mangrove forests (4)

Answer 13

1. Conocarpus erectus
2. Avicennia germinans
3. Laguncularia racemosa
4. Rhizophora mangle

Question 14

Flooded with average spring tides

Answer 14

Avicennia

Question 15

Touched only by the highest tides

Answer 15

Laguncularia

Question 16

Mangroves growing nearest the water belong here

Answer 16

genus Rhizophora

Question 17

At high latitudes, many freeze during winter

Answer 17

Salt Marshes

Question 18

Grow where the minimum annual temperature is about 20°C

Answer 18

Mangrove Forests

Question 19

Its shallows can heat up to over 40°C

Answer 19

Mangroves

Question 20

Minimum annual temperature for mangroves

Answer 20

20°C

Question 21

Drives the complex currents in estuaries. This current transport organisms, renew oxygen and remove wastes

Answer 21

Oceanic Tides and River Flows

Question 22

Also flow in salt marshes and mangrove forests. It transports the litter produced by salt marshes and mangrove vegetation

Answer 22

Tidal Currents

Question 23

It is highly valuable and reach extreme levels

Answer 23

Oxygen concentration

Question 24

High rates of this can increase dissolved oxygen concentrations to supersaturated levels

Answer 24

Photosynthesis

Question 25

Dominated by grasses

Answer 25

Salt Marshes

Question 26

Doesn’t support a great diversity of species but they are abundant

Answer 26

Estuaries and Salt Marshes

Question 27

Where most productive fisheries can occur

Answer 27

Estuaries and Salt Marshes

Question 28

Attract birds, especially water birds

Answer 28

Estuaries and Salt Marshes

Question 29

Birds are joined by crocodiles, alligators and tigers

Answer 29

Mangroves

Question 30

Among the most productive of environments

Answer 30

Freshwater Wetlands

Question 31

Are magnets for urban development

Answer 31

Estuaries and Salt Marshes

Question 32

Enrichment by organic matter and nutrients and resulting to oxygen depletion have produced this in coastal waters

Answer 32

Dead Zones

Question 33

Heavy metals discharged into Estuaries and Salt Marshes are incorporated into plant and animal tissues and have been through the process of _____. It elevates the toxic levels in some food species

Answer 33

Bioaccumulation

Question 34

Human Influences

Answer 34

1. Agriculture
2. Urban Development
3. Pollution
4. Dead Zones
5. Bioaccumulation
6. Clearing up mangrove forests
7. Replanting of mangrove