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The Rainforest Grew All Around

        A Day in the Salt Marsh  

 

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1. The fiddler crabs like:

Low tide
High Tide
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2. Diamondback terrapins eat:

Snails
Spartina grass
Each other
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3. Periwinkle snails:

Climb up and down the grass with the tide
Go underwater when the tide rises
Swim around during high tide
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4. Blue crabs:

Eat almost anything - even dead things
Are very picky about what they eat
Eat plants
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5. Dolphins swim into the marsh during high tide and:

Take naps
Chase fish to eat
Eat the grass
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6. Spartina grass survives the salt marsh:

With special glands that drink saltwater but spit the salt out
Strong roots to hold it steady through strong winds
Both of the above
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7. Small fish and edible sea animals use the salt marsh for a:

Place to live when they are adults
Nursery to grow bigger
Neither of the above
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8. Otters that live in salt marshes are:

Sea otters
River otters
Salt marsh otters
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9. Herons wait quietly for:

Fish (prey) to swim up to them
Others herons to bring them food
Plankton to come in on the tide
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10. Why didn't the horseshoe crab shell move?

It was eating
It was dead
It was a molted shell
 
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