Environmental conditions in coastal estuaries vary hourly and seasonally.
1. Identify and describe TWO important causes for the variation in temperature and salinity of an estuary. Be sure to include the connection between each cause and the temperature and salinity.
2. Describe TWO roles that coastal estuaries play that are ecologically important and TWO roles that coastal estuaries play that are economically important.
3. Identify and explain THREE ways that humans have had a negative impact on or have degraded coastal wetlands.