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ROCKY SHORES seaweeds cannot grow well and so, instead. the rocks are covered with llmpcls can ding on so tightly that it is almost impossible to dislodge shells, periwinkles are rolled by the waves into crevices, while starfish grip on to rocks using thousands o[ tube feet, which act as suckers. • ~ LSU £5 P ERIW 5 TARF1SH IS ROCK POOL (USA)
LITTLE SUCKERS On rough. wave-exposed shores. barnacles, limpets, and mussels. them. Protected by their tough •-1✓ ,;, - Rock pools are like miniature oases on the seashore. where delicate lish. anemones, and other soft animals can survive at low tide. However, living in a rock pool can be quite di!ficult. Small pools heat up and get very salty as the water evaporates on
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SHORES on a rocky shore: it A unrnver. a hidden seascape of rtllks. chlls. 1rnol) regions. such as Great Britain and North lie strewn in tangled heaps as the water drains away. Snails and crabs creep into damp crevil'es. ,hon· tlq1 cnd.., on \\hl·rl· in till' \\·mid lhl' , Jw n· 1 , . ~t',l\\'l't'th \H'II Oil 1h1, , hon· on B.ud,t·r hl,rnd. ]fl ~onh W.1k, 111 !Ill' p1t
l, Vlll[ TO THE OCEANS ROCI<Y ~ t;oEs um,·:- s Tiff Tm_ gulk-ys. and pools. Rocky shores in temperate Amnita: are hmm· to hundreds of dillerent n•·atures. Masses of slippery brown seaweeds Barnacles. mmsels, and limpets stop leeding and tightly dose up their shells to keep the lik-giving st·awater inside. TIDAL TERRAIN l-\Jllh \\ h.11 ,on, 111 plJnh and .mimal, lin· 0
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