Today’s Warm-Up: (Throwback….)

1. What is the most stable family on the periodic table?

2. What is the name of a horizontal row of the periodic table?

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Warm-Up: 3/3/14

Table of Contents 1

Title Assignment #Properties of Water Cloze Notes (Handout) 6Properties of Water Vocabulary 7Water Properties Webquest 8Water Cycle Brainpop 9Water Cycle Vocabulary 10Water on Earth Notes 11River Basin Notes 12River Basin Vocab 13River Basin Scavenger Hunt 14Estuaries Notes 15

So What is an Estuary, So Now You Know Video 7:08

• >Estuary Video

• http://estuaries.noaa.gov/Estuarylive/VideoGallery.aspx?ID=17

http://goo.gl/ZHAuUn

Estuaries Video Questions

Moving to the Oceans –Estuaries 15

8th Grade Science

Copy items in red and images indicated.

EstuariesEstuary: is a body of water, partially enclosed by land, where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean.

Water in Estuaries is Brackish. Brackish means partly fresh and partly salty.

Coastal Ocean

Estuary

River

Draw picture

Schematic of a typical Estuary

ESTUARY IMAGES

Neuse River Estuary

Neuse River

Very Fresh

VerySalty

Neuse River Basin

Neuse River

NC largest Estuary is the Pamilco Sound

Filtering System

• Estuaries clean our rivers by removing…..

Sediment and Pollutant.

This makes me think of…______

Sediments• Sediment – Soil particles and chemicals carried

by the river• Carrying of soil Muddy estuaries– Soil can smother fish eggs, aquatic insects, and

plants with mud.

• Erosion of land Chemical deposits– Chemicals can kill life

• Some estuaries are actually salt marshes.– These plants and

mud take up some of the sediments and pollutants!

• Animation of salt marsh

• Salt Marsh Filtering

• http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/estuaries/media/supp_estuar03a_marsh.html

Pollutants

• Pollutants: Pesticides, sewage and industrial waste

• Estuaries are a type of environmental filter.

• Plants and animals in estuaries filter pollutants out of the water.

Pollutants

• Ex: Salt Marsh Plants trap some of the chemicals and pathogens carried by rivers and move them into soils where they can be neutralized.

• Ex: Oysters filter impurities out of the water as they eat, collecting contaminants in their bodies. One oyster can filter 25 gallons of water per day

• Too many toxins can accumulate in estuaries causing many environmental and health problems

Work Cited

• http://estuaries.noaa.gov/Teachers/estuaries.aspx

• http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/estuaries/media/supp_estuar03a_marsh.html

Quick Review

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What is an estuary?

A. The land area that drains water into a lake, river, or pond.

B. The area where a river meets the ocean, where fresh and salt water mix.

C. The large body of salt water that covers most of the earth’s surface

D. The underground system that provides drinking water to an area

Which letter marks the estuary on the diagram?

Estuaries have also been called?

A. BaysB. LagoonsC. SoundsD. SloughsE. All of the Above

Why are estuaries important to our environment?

A. They provide homes for many species of wildlife

B. They are important nursery areas for a variety of marine life

C. They help to filter pollutants from the waterD. All of the above

How are estuaries connected to oceanic organisms?

A.Estuaries provide a nursery grounds for oceanic organisms

B.Estuaries provide sunlight for oceanic organisms.

C. Estuaries provide primary food for oceanic organisms.

D.Estuaries provide excess dissolved oxygen for oceanic organisms

Work Cited

• http://estuaries.noaa.gov/Teachers/estuaries.aspx

• http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/estuaries/media/supp_estuar03a_marsh.html