supralittoral - Zone with most changes, sublittoral - Zone easiest to live in, photic - photosynthesis can occur here, aphotic - in a cave dark zone, NO LIGHT, eulittoral - zone we want to collect organisms from, disphotic - light present but not enough for photosynthesis, euphotic - phytoplankton live here, zooplankton - Live in disphotic and migrate at night, Galveston Island - example of a barrier island, barrier island - long, narrow, always parallel to land, Texas has the most, peninsula - land surrounded by water on 3 sides, benthic - on bottom, hydrogensulfide - biggest threat to benthic organisms, pelagic - open ocean, nephritic - coastline, near the coast, island - land surrounded by water on all sides, lagoon - shallow bay, parallel, NO freshwater, pass - narrow passageway between two points of land, estuary - shallow bay, perpendicular to land, river at its head, Galveston bay - an example of an estuary....,

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