What are the characteristics of near shore environments?
What changes would animals living there need to deal with?
What adaptations do animals that live in a splash zone or intertidal zone have to survive there?
Describe those environments.
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Intertidal zones have harsh conditions and animals have to adapt to survive there. The mudskipper can breathe on land and water. The crab can live on land and move with the high and low tides. Animals with shells will trap water in it's shell and breath dissovoled oxygen through that during the low or high tides.
why do biger fish stay at the bottom of the ochean the the top?
Like Cam said intertidal zones have some harsh conditions that some fish can't handle. The animals that live around these areas have to able to live in water and land. Or they have to have a way that they can survive both. Like animals with shells latch onto rocks during low tide so they don't dry up as fast. Then during high tide they come out and get and recive the nutrients they need.
The near shore zone's in habitants have to adapt to the changing tides. They have to be able to be both in and out of water, and in and out of sunlight. The shore might be flooded, or it might be dry. The animals need to make adaptations to survive these changes. An animal that has adapted to these changes is a mud skipper, which can breathe both in and out of water.
In an intertidal zone, organisms have to be able to survive in and out of water. If ther is a high tide, the organisms will have to adapt to breathing in the water. When it's low tide, the organisms will have to be able to adapt out of the water.
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