Chapter 4 - vocabulary

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Environmental Science - Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 2000

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estivating

when animals such as amphibians, survive desert summers by burying themselves in the ground and sleeping through the dry season

estuary

an ecosystem in which fresh water from rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean, it becomes a nutrient trap, where mineral rich mud drops to the bottom - most productive ecosystmes because of plenty of light and nutrients, organisms that live in esturaies are able to tolerate variations in salinity