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21.2 What Are the Characteristics of the Sandy Beach Environment?
21.2 What Are the Characteristics of the Sandy Beach Environment?
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This Marine Science website discusses all of the different aspects of a sandy beach including the different organisms that live on the sandy beach. A second page shows pictures of the many different organisms.

This video does not have any talking but does have readings every few frames. It shows some of the organisms that live on sandy beaches. The video also talks about the threats to sandy beaches.

This website gives a definition of zonation.

This video discusses that biologists have divided the oceans into zones in order to make learning about the ocean more manageable. The video talks about the horizontal zones and describes what they are and what can be found there. It also talks about the vertical zones.

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