Coastal Habitat

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Coastal Habitat
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• What is a coast?
• The coast is the meeting place between land and
  sea.
• What is a habitat?
• The specific area or environment in which a
  particular type of plant or animal lives. An
  organism's habitat must provide all the basic
  requirements for survival.
• What is a coastal ecosystem?
• Communities of living things found near the sea,
  the physical factors that affect them (sunlight,
  temperature, salt, currents, etc.), and the flow
  of energy from one organism to the next.

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Rocky Shores
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Sandy Beaches
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Mudflats
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Salt Marshes
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Estuaries
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Fjords