The Salt Marsh

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The Salt Marsh

Quiz #5

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Spring tides are

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Really high tides that happen in April and May

Tides with a small tidal range that occur at the full and new moon

Tides with a greater tidal range that occur at the full and new moon

Tides that suddenly surge forward due to wind

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This bird is commonly seen (and heard) in the salt marsh, but also often seen foraging in the tideline at the beach. It is a

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Willet

Pelican

Clapper rail

Dunlin

Black bellied plover

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How has the construction of piers in the marsh affected shorebirds? (select all that apply)

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Shorebirds couldn't care less about piers.

Shorebirds use piers as resting sites during high tides.

Shorebirds use piers to watch for fish to prey on during low tide.

Piers can be dangerous for shorebirds when predators, such as dogs, are able to access them.

In the context of sea level rise, piers may provide important habitat functions as traditional beach and sandbar habitats are increasingly overtopped at high tides.

What does the term 'planktonic' mean?

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An organism that is able to photosynthesize

An organism that is too small to be seen without a microscope

An organism that is unable to propel itself against a current

A new type of energy drink

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What is the typical salinity of sea water?

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100

-35

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Which is the salt marsh periwinkle, Littoraria irrorata

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Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Option 5

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Name that plant:

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Where would you expect to find the highest soil salinity?

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Low marsh

Salt meadow

Salt panne

Upland

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Based on the position of this fish's mouth, where does it most likely feed in the water column?

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On the bottom

It chases prey in the middle of the water column

It feeds towards the top of the water column

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And what if behind me to westward the wall of the woods stands high?

The world lies east: how ample, the marsh and the sea and the sky!

A league and a league of marsh-grass, waist-high, broad in the blade,

Green, and all of a height, and unflecked with a light or a shade,

Stretch leisurely off, in a pleasant plain,

To the terminal blue of the main.

Oh, what is abroad in the marsh and the terminal sea?

Somehow my soul seems suddenly free

From the weighing of fate and the sad discussion of sin,

By the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of Glynn.

-from The Marshes of Glynn, by Sidney Lanier

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