| A | B |
|---|
| Stenohaline | Plants and animals that can tolerate only slight changes in salinity |
| Euryhaline | Plants and animals that can tolerate a wide range of salinities |
| Pneumatophores | aerial roots |
| Propagules | seedlings that begin growing while attached to a parent plant |
| Anaerobic | organisms that live without oxygen |
| Zoea | crab larvae |
| Megalope | young crabs |
| Anthropogenic | caused by humans |
| Anoxic | no oxygen environment |
| bar built | ” estuaries occur when sandbars or barrier islands are built up by ocean waves and currents along coastal areas fed by one or more rivers or streams” |
| delta | accumulation of silt and sediment at the mouth of large rivers |
| tectonic | deep estuaries surrounded by mountainous areas |
| estuary | ”a partially enclosed body of water |
| brackish | mixture of seawater and fresh water in estuaries |
| freshwater | concentration of salts |
