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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

Salinity

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

salt content of water (C3, M3)

Ground water

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

water that flows through naturally porous or fractured rocks and soils beneath the surface of the land; also, water trapped between dikes (vertical, underground sheets of volcanic rock) or floating on seawater within rocks (C3, R1)

Emergent land

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

land that comes out of the water, an island (C3)

Brackish

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

somewhat salty, but not as salty as ocean water (C2, C3)

Anchialine pond

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a brackish or saltwater pool with no surface connection to the ocean (C3)

Adaptation

February 4, 2013 by Hoike

a change in an organism or species that enables it to survive in a particular habitat (A3, C3, R3, M2, M3)

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