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The ocean is divided into zones with their own combination of challenges and resources
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Add neritic and hadal zones
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What are the challenges of living in the intertidal zone?
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ChallengeOrganismRelative adaptation
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The tide comes in Mont Saint Michel Normandy, France Population: 44 Visitors per year: 3 million
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The tide goes out arctic tide
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Higher high tides + lower low tides = greater tidal range
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Higher low tides + lower high tides = smaller tidal range
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Review the tide calendars of Narragansett Bay and come up with 5 pieces of information
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An amphidromic point is a no tide point in the ocean. A tide wave crest comes into an ocean basin (a). The coriollis effect causes it to veer right (b). It cannot continue right because of interference by the land so it heads north © then westward (d)
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True tidal waves: tidal borestidal bores
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Long narrowing waterway Bay of Fundy
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Bay of Fundy: Largest Tidal Range 17 meters (53-55 ft.) tidal resonancetidal resonance resulting from a coincidence of timing: the time it takes a large wave to go from the mouth of the bay to the inner shore and back is practically the same as the time from one high tide to the next. time lapse
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Tlingit story Tlingit: People of the Tides
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Grunions need spring tides grunions
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