Glossary

WORD		DEFINITION
Abundant	-	Large or more than enough; plentiful
Ajar	-	Partially open
Algae	-	Any of a large group of  lower plants having chlorophyll but no vascular system
Carnivores	-	Meat eating animals
Chemical	-	A substance that creates
Clamped	-	Tightly shut or not open, to fasten or grip
Crevices	-	A narrow crack
Crustaceans	-	A member of the class Crustacea including barnacles, fairy shrimp, lobster and others
Dense	-	Having the parts closely packed up together
Environment	-	Surroundings and conditions that affect natral prosesses
Exhibiting	-	To show or display
Extend	-	To stretch, spread, enlarge to greater lengths greater, or scope; expand
Frond	-	A large leaf
Herbivore	-	Plant eating animals
High Intertidal Zone	-	A place where critters take shelter and where there's not much water
High tide	-	When there's lots of waves, the highest level of the tides
Holdfasts	-	Tight roots that help seaweed not to blow away
Inhabitant	-	A resident of a place
Isopods	-	An order of aquatic crustaceans with a flat, oval body and seven pairs of walking legs
Larva	-	A juvenile form prior to its morphing to the adult stage
Low tide	-	When there's no waves, the lowest level of the tides
Marine	-	Sea life and ocean
Microscopic	-	Capable of being seen or studied only through a microscope
Mollusks	-	Sea animals usually with no shell, that have no backbone
Particles	-	A very small piece or amount
Pigment	-	A substance that gives a characteristic color to plants and animals
Predators	-	An animal that kills and feeds on other animals
Profile	-	The side of an object
Radiating	-	Shaking started at the ribs an slowly moves outwards
Radula	-	A narrow tongue-like organ in the mouth of mollusks with rows of teeth
Refuge	-	Protection or shelter from danger or hardships
Respiratory	-	The system used for breathing
Scientific	-	Scientific means the way a scientist puts that animal, plant or bacterial in a way only they can understood
Secrete	-	To produce a secretion
Sediments	-	Matter that falls to the bottom of liquid
Sensory	-	Relating to sensation like hearing and seeing
Shingles	-	Materials used in overlapping rows for covering roofs and walls
Silhouette	-	An outline
Species	-	A group of organisms that are closely related
Spheroid	-	A body that is almost but not quite a sphere
Tidepool	-	The spot in which sea water is trapped as the tide goes out
Withstand	-	To resist successfully