Life between tides

Series: Basic Life Science--Plant and Animal Relationship Series

Duration: 0:11:10

Genre: Animal | Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Describes life along the Pacific Coast, illustrating representative types of plants and animals that have adapted to the ebb and flow of the tides. Pictures seaweeds and barnacles living permanently attached to rocks; clams and limpets living on the sandy shore; and animals such as sea stars, anemones, and hydroids which live in the tide pools along the rocky coast. Points out the relationships among plants, animals, and their marine environment., Portrays the diversity of animal life in the intertidal zone. Film emphasizes the importance of invertebrate life in marine communities and marine food cycles. The need for careful management and conservaton of these valuable biological resources is stressed.

Complete Record: , Describes life along the Pacific Coast, illustrating representative types of plants and animals that have adapted to the ebb and flow of the tides. Pictures seaweeds and barnacles living permanently attached to rocks; clams and limpets living on the sandy shore; and animals such as sea stars, anemones, and hydroids which live in the tide pools along the rocky coast. Points out the relationships among plants, animals, and their marine environment., Portrays the diversity of animal life in the intertidal zone. Film emphasizes the importance of invertebrate life in marine communities and marine food cycles. The need for careful management and conservaton of these valuable biological resources is stressed.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.