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Estuaries

Estuaries

An estuary is a body of water that is created when freshwater from rivers and streams flows into the saltwater of an ocean. To understand this mixing of fresh and salt water, learners go through several activities: 1) in Salt and Water, learners dissolve salt crystals in water to observe their effects on water; 2) in Making a Salt Wedge, learners make a model of a salt wedge estuary, which occurs in nature when the mouth of a river flows...

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Keywords:
Social Sciences, Plants, NSDL, Biological Science, Ecology, Wedge, Salinity, Physics, Saltwater, Conducting Investigations, Chemistry, Earth Structure, General, Earth System Science, Space Science, Brackish, Science and Society, Forestry and Agriculture, Physical Sciences, Life Science, Physical Science, Ecosystems, Diversity of Life, Geoscience, Communicating Results, Ecologist, Oceanography, Freshwater, Gathering Data, Marine, The Scientific Process, General Science, Life Sciences, Oceans and Water, Aquatic, Earth and Space Science, Solutions, Education, Plasmolysis, Estuary, Formulating Explanations, Salt-tolerant, Solution, Stratification
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Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
June 29, 2020
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Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Primary Audience:
Grade School, Middle School, High School
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Website
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Not specified at this time
Language:
English
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Unknown
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