Rocky Seabeds
Rocky Seabeds are home to a very distinct community of marine life. Certain seaweeds and other grounded sea life thrive here. They also provide a safe, sheltered place for animals. Some of the animals that live in Rocky Seabeds can formally attach themselves to the seaweed and rocks do well here. This is because they are able to grip themselves to a rock or seaweed with one arm, and the other they can use to get food. Others living here move around eating seaweed or other animals.
Sandy Seabeds
Sandy Seabeds are home to small marine life such as hard shelled mollusks, sea cucumbers, urchins, and some crustaceans. Although most prefer to live on sturdier sand and gravel this is where you will find plant life harboring a range of marine life. The plants living here are able to thanks to flame shells and horse mussels. Marine life that living here has adapted to it. Some examples are the flat fish which is flat with a sandy color allowing it to hand in the sand. Others like crustaceans and echinoderms will make tunnels under the sand for their homes.
Seagrass Beds and Kelp Forests
Kelp Forests and Seagrass Beds are very different from other shallow Seabeds. Both of these Shallow Seabeds provide food and shelter for a wide range of marine life. Kelp creates the forests of the ocean, growing best in cold water. Because of how kelp grows it creates a multilayered environment. This basically means different marine life is found on different levels of the kelp. Sea grasses are the only flowering marine plant, and they thrive best in warm water. They grow best in clear shallow water, and they grow the same way as grass dose on land. This helps stabilize the sand, and also attracts a large variety of marine life. Including sedentary animals, sea grasses also provide a necessary food source. For animals like manatees, dugongs, green sea turtles, and some marine birds.
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