Fort Fisher

Organism
Living plant or animal

Adaptation
A physical characteristic that a plant or animal has that makes it possible to survive in its environment.

Omnivore
An animal that eats plants or animals depending on what is available. Bears,people, blue crabs, shrimp.

CARNIVOROUS

• Any plant which has adapted to its environment by ingesting insects
• Pitcher plant, Venus fly trap.

Savanna
Area with low shrubs and scattered trees

Coastal marsh
Wet grassy area

Pocosin
An area of land with dense vegetation and shrub bogs

Sand ridge
Elevated, dry, sandy area with desert like vegetation.

Bivalve
A class of mollusk that has 2 hinged shells.

Univalve or gastropod
A class of mollusk that has 1 shell and usually spirals

Zone of the shoreline, always wet

Intertidal zone
The zone of the shoreline between low and high tideline sometimes in air.

Supratidal zone
Never wet. Zone of shoreline above tidelines

Plankton
Small floating plants and animals that depend on the currents for transportation.

Nekton
Strong swimmers that live in open water.

Benthos
Organisms that live in the bottom of the ocean.

Detritus
Dead matter and microorganisms that form the food chain.

Estuary
Where freshwater and saltwater meet.
Zeke's island at the mouth of cape fear river

Habitat
The suitable arrangement of food, water, and shelter and space so a animal can live.

Ecosystem
A natural system in which living and non living things are linked.

Community
All the interacting plant and animal populations in a common area.

Environment
The total surroundings of plants and animals.

Parasite
Organism that lives in or on another organism.

Symbiosis
Two organisms living together with mutual benefit.

Saprophyte
Organism that lives on dead or decaying matter.

Epiphyte
A plant that gets food and moisture Crome the air and uses at other plants for support.

Lichen
Plant made of alge and fungus.