Unit 3 Marine Ecosystems unit Assessment

Species living in the Intertidal Zone must be able to survive which changes?

• Moisture

• Temperature

• Salinity

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Submerged and exposed for equal amounts of time

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

Only submerged at high tide; hotter and drier

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

Only exposed during low tide; contains the highest biodiversity

• High tide

• Medium tide

• Low tide

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Ecosystem found on marine shorelines alternating between high and low tide

• Abyssal Zone

• Coral Reef

• Intertidal Zone

• Open Ocean

What is the intertidal zone?

• An area covered by water all the time

• An area where a river meets an ocean

• The area along the shore that exists between the highest high and lowest low tides

• The ocean rainforest that is home to 25% of all marine species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

When it rains, seawater has ___ salinity.

• lower

• higher

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Tide pools become more salty due to ___.

• evaporation

• precipitation

• runoff

• waves

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Being out of the water and exposed to air is called ___.

• emersion

• immersion

• salinity

• turbidity

What is one way animals in the intertidal zone deal with rough waves?

• Some can attach to rocks

• Some burrow into sand

• Some hide

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4