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September 1st - What factors do the animals that live between the tides have to deal with? September 2nd - What two way can the animals that live between the tides survive? September 3rd - Why is the Eastern seaboard different in make-up as compared to the rockier Western seaboard? September 4th - What is the difference between emersion and immersion? September 8th - What kind of continental margin is on the Eastern seaboard? September 9th - How does the temperature and salinity of small tidal pools change through the course of a hot sunny day on the coast? September 10th - What kind of adaptations might tidal pool organisms have to survive? September 11th - How can color effect the life of an organism that lives in between the tides or in tide pools? September 14th - Many organisms that live in the intertidal zones must be able to withstand the force of waves. Some animals can move out of the way, but how do those that can’t move survive? September 15th - Knowing that many organisms in a rocky intertidal population attach to the rock, what is the single most limiting factor in that population? September 16th - Adaptations can be broken up into three groups. Physiological because some organisms can slow their metabolic rate. What are the other two groups? September 17th - In your opinion, which category of adaptation would you consider the most important? Why? September 18th - Besides the shell, list three other structural adaptations. September 21st - Would you expect to find deposit feeders or filter feeders in a rocky shore area? Why or why not? September 22nd - Why do filter feeders excel more in active water than in stagnant tide pools? September 23rd - Inservice Day September 24th - No Drill September 25th - List 5 different external features on the spiney dogfish shark. September 28th - What do the External Nares, Spiracle, and Lateral Line do for the dogfish shark? September 29th - What is the difference between the epaxial and hypaxial muscles? September 30th - This muscle, found just caudal from the eye, are the main muscles in closing the jaw?