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Questions and Answers
Estuaries and You!
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What is an estuary?
• Where river meets the sea
• Slow water (low energy)
• Low-lying lands• Salt tolerant plants
and animals
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What is a salt marsh?
• low, wet area flooded by salt water during high tides
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Common Plants and Animals
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Why is the bottom of the salt marsh muddy?
• Calm water
• Decaying matter
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How were the salt marshes formed?
• Began forming after last Ice Age (~10,000 ya)– when eroded soils from newly formed mountains were
deposited along the coast.
Today, sediment trapped by grasses continues expands our marshes.
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How have plants & animals adapted?
SALT• Only some have
actually adapted to the salt water
• Some can excrete salt
• Most have developed ways to store fresh water
TIDES• Some move to escape rising
water• Some dig • Some have gills that can work
as long as they are wet
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Why is the salt marsh important to sea animals ?
• Nursery
• Food source
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Can marshland be re-created once it is destroyed?
• Efforts can be made to clean up and replant
• Better to avoid destroying them in the first place
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Why is the estuary and salt marsh important to people?
• Food
• Buffer Zone
• Filters
• Economy
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What are your ideas???
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Here is what to do!
• Work as a group to create a plan to save, preserve, clean, or restore a marshland.
• Include a story behind your idea for your presentation to your peers.
• Make a poster to promote your idea to the public.
• Make sure the poster illustrates both the problem and the solution.