ok so im doing a science project and i need a little help. Is a rock pool alive? Since it’s a habitat for many organisms in the rocky intertidal zone, would it be a biotic or abiotic factor?
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10 Points Best Answer! What Are Rock Pools? Are They Alive?
Posted on May 28, 2013.
a rock pool is a pool of water that forms in a depression of rock or rocks that doesn’t lose its water when the tide goes out. Water can’t drain through rock. It wouldn’t be alive, since it is nothing more than water in a bowl in a rock, but it is common to find a lot of living things in such pools.
I have found starfish, crabs, clams and mussels, snails, barnacles (of course), and even a small lobster (once) in rock pools. often the pools have algae or seaweed or some vegetation attached to the rock and things live in and under that vegetation. Since the pool itself is not alive, it is an abiotic factor. The seaweed that grows on the rock and gives animals a hiding place and something to eat would be a biotic factor that contributes to diversity of life in that little niche.
a tidal pool?
it is a small body of sea water above the low tide mark but below the high tide mark
the water was left there as the tide receded, many marine organisms live there
it is an abiotic factor, and is not alive