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What is the term for a ridge of coral in the sea that may be covered by high tides and exposed at low tides?
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A coral reef.
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What is a solar tides?
solar tides are tides thst effect the ocean tides
What ocean movements are affected by the moon gravity?
tides of course
A sentence for tides?
The Moon effects the tides
Tide are especially high or low when the moon is full or new?
in England we call them spring tides and they occur whenever there is a full moon.
What tides is important?
importance of tides fishing navigation
What happens to tidal zone over the course of one day?
During the day it is covered by water and exposed to air... as the tides move in or out.
Does coral reefs have high and low tides?
Tides are a world wide ocean and sea thing. As all coral reefs I have heard of are in the oceans and seas, Yes all coral reefs have normal tidal action.
What happens to a tidal zone over the course of one day?
The water rises for 6 hours then falls for 6 hours in a cycle.
What are the three zones of the ocean?
Marine biologist use three classifications: Low: exposed only during the lowest seasonal tides, primarily marine in nature. Mid: is regularly exposed and submerged by regular tides. High: is only covered by the highest seasonal tides and is primarily terrestrial habitat.
Which ecosystem would experience the most drastic changes in a 24-hour period?
The ecosystem that would experience the most drastic changes in a 24-hour period would be an intertidal zone. This is because an intertidal zone is exposed to all the changes in the tide during all times of the day. The intertidal zone is the portion of the shoreline that is covered with water at high tides and exposed to the air during low tides.
Which ecosystem would experience the most drastic changes in 24 hour period?
The ecosystem that would experience the most drastic changes in a 24-hour period would be an intertidal zone. This is because an intertidal zone is exposed to all the changes in the tide during all times of the day. The intertidal zone is the portion of the shoreline that is covered with water at high tides and exposed to the air during low tides.
What is a thin strip of land that is surrounded by water?
That would be a 'Peninsula'. The word comes from Latin in the early 1500s and is composed of "paene", meaning 'almost' and 'insula', meaning 'island'.
What is the definition for ocean shore zone?
The immediate land at the end of a sea. That land covered by low and high tides .
Why are coral reefs 40 meters from water surface?
Tides. It is a natural formation so it obviously won't form in a place where it will die when there's a new moon.
Gently sloping shore next to a body of water washed by waves or tides often covered by sand and pebbles?
A beach
Do clownfish live in the intertidal zone?
Yes, some reefs are exposed at low tide, especially extreme low tide. This puts a strain on coral, and some experience periodic bleaching in the warm water/sunlight. Source: experience with the reefs in my home town of Darwin in northern Australia which experiences extreme tides. During the low spring tide it is possible to walk out on top of the reef and look at the exposed colourful coral, anemones, sponges and other reef life. I am sure that there is only a rather limited subset of species which can survive in this zone as opposed to permanently underwater.
What type of shell would be most suited to live on a rocky shore that is exposed at low tides?
light colored to reflect sunlight and ridged to dissipate heat
