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An estuary is an ecological zone where rivers meet what other body of water?
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water is mixed with seawater
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What is the geographic distribution in estuary?
The estuary is a partially enclosed body of water formed where streams and rivers flows into ocean mixing with salt sea water. Estuaries are the place of transition from land to sea and from fresh water to sea water.
What would be an example of an estuary?
The River Thames estuary in London, UK, is where the river water mixes with the sea water of the English Channel.
What is the difference between Tagia biome and the Estuary biome?
tiaga is made up of coniferous trees and is known as coniferous forest estuary is the biome where fresh water streams and the ocean meet the main difference is that the taiga biome is a land biome and estuary is a water biome
What type of ecosystem has both salty and fresh water?
estuaries and lagoons
What is the average salinity in an estuary?
Questioning 'what is the average salinity in an estuary?' is the wrong question! An estuary is formed where a river meets the sea, the sea would be typically around 35,000 mg/L (total dissolved salts) and the river may be very fresh, say 100 mg/L or possibly brackish if it has picked up salt along the way. That may depend on the river flow rate and salt accessions within the river basin. The salinity of the estuary will range from sea salinity to fresh along the length of the estuary depending upon tidal interchange and river flow rates. A more important question, particularly for the ecology, is what is the transient range at any point and how might this vary depending upon seasons and drought cycles. This will affect the range of ecologic systems (flora and fauna) that can thrive or survive. Some systems need only fresh water others need only salt water, however the estuary offers the opportunity for fish and other species which enjoy different salinity at different parts of their life cycle.
Streams and rivers merge with ocean water?
An estuary.
What is an area where streams and rivers merge with ocean water?
Estuary
What does a watershed provide for an estuary?
fresh water input from rivers
What is region of salt-water intrusion upstream into the mouth of rivers called?
An estuary.
Example of an estuary?
An estuary is an area where fresh water and salty ocean waters mix together. These areas may include bays, mouths of rivers, salt marshes, and lagoons. These brackish (salt mixed with fresh) water ecosystems shelter and feed marine life, birds, and other wildlife with nutrients from the ocean.
What is the geographic distribution in estuary?
The estuary is a partially enclosed body of water formed where streams and rivers flows into ocean mixing with salt sea water. Estuaries are the place of transition from land to sea and from fresh water to sea water.
Why is an estuary called an estuary?
An estuary is the lower course of a river where the rivers current meets the sea's tide, there is a mixing of sea and salt water. The word comes from Latin 'aestuarium' which means a tidal marsh or opening
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.
What is the type of precipitation is found in an estuary biome?
it's a costal body of water in it has streams in rivers running into it.
How might a dam upriver affect an estuary at rivers mouth?
the water doesn't flow down stream
A place where fresh water from rivers mixes with salty ocean water is a?
An estuary is the place when river water mixes with seawater (salty ocean water).
The mixture of salt and freshwater in an estuary varies according to?
water densitysorry i meant to put ebb and flow of rivers and tides
