| holly | | Area that fills with water as the tide drops filled with many organisms |
| she oak | | Mangrove zone which is dry except for flooding |
| primary dune | | An organism that looks like a chinaman's hat |
| dispersal | | Debri and rubbish that washes up on the beach |
| secondary | | Mangrove with a milky sap (latex) which is present in the leaves |
| windward | | Mangrove with a large cannonball-shaped fruit |
| dodder | | This mangrove has distinct buttress and knee roots |
| cone shell | | Mangrove with silver grey colour on the back of the leaves |
| osbornia octodonta | | The flower on a plant |
| flotsam | | Stilt or red mangrove |
| avicennia marina | | Side out of the wind |
| inflorescence | | Side exposed to the wind |
| tertiary dune | | Casuarina tree |
| spinifex | | Intricate shell design. Fires a dart into the hand of the person picking it up |
| dichotomus key | | Where many organisms co-exist together happily |
| buffer zone | | Myrtle mangrove |
| ceriops species | | Mangrove with a prickly edge |
| rhizophora stylosa | | This dune is the most important dune |
| transect | | Small breath holes in grey mangrove roots |
| blind your eye | | This area is where the trees and shrubs can easily grow. |
| pneumatophores | | Dune behind the primary dune |
| jellyfish | | Small, green leafed plant which grows on the foredune |
| diversity | | Uses a venom injected into a person if stood on |
| salt glands | | Blue rings present when disturbed |
| octopus | | Cross section of the raw data |
| goats foot | | Orange coloured parasite which attaches to other plants |
| aegiceras corniculatum | | Tool used for indentifying different species |
| lenticels | | An zone that protects another area |
| sub littoral | | Grey coloured grass which send out runners and deep roots to three metres |
| limpet | | River mangrove |
| quadrat | | Small, vertical roots that alow the plant to breath at low tide |
| rock pool | | Method of expelling seeds for reproduction |
| landward | | Some mangroves can excrete excess salt through their leaves |
| cannonball Mangrove | | Floats in the ocean and has stinging tenticles |
| stonefish | | Technique of sampling a population e.g. using a 1 m X 1 m square zone |
| intertidal zone | | Rocky shore zone exposed to lots of dry conditions |
| leeward | | Many different types |
| ecosystem | | Between the low tide and high tide marks |
