The secret life of an Estuary

We are learning to identify and discuss the main ideas in text.

Caption: These 2 examples shows estuary merging salt and fresh water.

What is an Estuary?

Estuaries are funnel like routes that are filled with a lot of dissolved soil and nutrients which are crucial amongst the living organisms found on the Estuary. These Estuaries also allows saltwater and freshwater to merge from river and sea. Only small amounts of river water that are merged ventures onto the sea.

How does Estuary impact the environment?

The dissolved nutrients found inside the Estuary are crucial very crucial to the food web or food chain. This chain is a list of living organism connected to present’s each of the animals preys and predator. The plankton on the estuary will consume the fresh nutrients and then migrates onto the sea. Devoured by small little fishes and then get’s eaten by a larger life form. Then someday we humans and other aerial animals may feast on those animals.

Caption: This is an example of a food chain or food web

What was the purpose of what the author wrote this for?

The main idea is the central, or most important, idea in a paragraph or passage. It states the purpose and sets the direction of the paragraph or passage. The main idea may be stated or it may be implied. sentence of the paragraph.

Main Idea:

That we have to make the right choices. If we make a horrid mistake it might lead to dire consequences.

Major Supporting Idea:

The symptoms of doing the wrong things and the benefits of a clean estuary.