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What type of water body is the Chesapeake Bay?
An estuary.
What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
That body of water is called an estuary. It is a partially enclosed coastal body of water where rivers or streams flow into and mix with seawater. This mixing of fresh and salt water creates a unique and productive ecosystem.
An area where a stream deposits sediment into a body of water?
estuary
What is a wide mouth body of water close to shore?
It is an estuary.
What is estuary in organisms?
An estuary is an area, or body of water where the water from a river meets the water of a larger body of water such as a bay or ocean. Thus an estuary has mixed wildlife and is inbetween salt and fresh water.
What is the name for a body of water that is a portion of the ocean and penetrates into land?
Tidal Estuary
What is the name for a body of water that is portion of the ocean and penetrates into land?
Tidal Estuary
What is a large body of salt water that is smaller than an ocean called?
estuary
What is A large body of salt water smaller than an ocean is called?
estuary
What is the difference between a tributary a estuary and a channel?
A tributary is a stream or river that flows into a larger body of water. An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the ocean. A channel is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water, such as a channel between two islands.
Is fresh water in an estuary?
an estuary is a mix of salt water and fresh water.
What is an estuary and why is it important marine organisms?
•An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
