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| The area of shoreline between high and low tides |
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| The bottom surface of a marine habitat |
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| Benthic animals that move about the surface of the sea bottom , or are firmly attached to it. |
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| A member of the epifauna that lives attached to a substrate. |
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| A term referring to an organism that has lost its body moisture. |
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| Noticeable bands of organisms living within a certain range in the intertidal zone. |
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| A gradually increasing occupation of new organisms into a specific area. |
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| Organisms that live under the sediment of an ecosystem. |
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| When a dominant species that moves into an area and becomes established for an extended period of time |
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| Intertidal zone referred to as? |
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| Limiting resource of upper intertidal zone |
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| Limiting resources- lower intertidal |
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| Limiting resource- middle |
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| Most diversity in marine life |
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| Predation, food, competition for space |
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| Salinity, available space, moisture |
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| Organisms that are predictable, such as barnacles, muscles |
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| Used to hold on or anchor sessile organisms |
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| Organisms prevent desiccation |
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| by sealing in moisture- T |
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| one of the few organisms that inhabits mud- T |
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| benefits and harms organisms- T |
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| Two intertidal substrates- T |
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| Mud allows water to move more quickly |
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| bc small particles, closer together- F |
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| has greater diversity of life- F |
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| not noticable in muddy intertidal- T |
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| exists without seastars- T |
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| do not affect temperature of water- F |
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| Predation and competition |
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