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The shallow sea bed yields up an abundance of food.

Gordon, her boat's kind of in shallow water right now.

But it lays its eggs in shallow depressions in the sand with very little protection around them.

Minerals released by decay are quickly absorbed by multitudinous shallow, fine tree feeder roots and stored in plant tissues.

In contrast, a braided stream flows in many shallow, interconnecting channels.

Between Alaska and Asia today lies the Bering Strait, which is so shallow that a fall in sea level of only four meters would turn it into a land bridge.

Many of the groups of animals that typify the filter-feeding lifestyle in shallow water have deep-sea representatives that have become predatory.

Many areas of the shallow sea bottom are covered with a lush growth of aquatic flowering plants adapted to live submerged in seawater.

When the current approaches the equator, the westward-flowing trade winds cause nutrient-rich cold water along the coast to rise from deeper depths to more shallow ones.

But succulent plants have a spread-out and shallow root system that can quickly pull in water from the top inches of soil, though the soil has to be saturated since succulents aren't good at absorbing water from soil that's only a little moist.

There's over 90 known species of Notothenioids and they inhabit both shallow and very deep waters, mostly around Antarctica.

As recently as 6,000 B.C. the southern frontier of the desert was far to the north of where it is now, while semiarid grassland and shallow freshwater lakes covered much of what are now arid plains.

We’ve gone over where coral reefs are usually formed – along the edges of shallow ocean banks in tropical or subtropical regions, and the fact that they are declining at an alarming rate.

It is a rather shallow bowl that was crudely made in a mold; hence, in only a limited number of standard sizes.

Well, chinampas are artificial islands built up in shallow lakes.

Since they had relatively shallow hulls, they were unstable when driven by sail or when on rough water: hence they were unsuitable for the voyage to the East.

Most shallow aquifers in sand and gravel deposits produce lower yields, but they can be rapidly recharged.

The mineral content of groundwater normally increases with the depth, but even quite shallow aquifers can be highly saline.

Off and on throughout the Cretaceous (the last period of the Mesozoic era, during which dinosaurs flourished), large shallow seas covered extensive areas of the continents.

The shallow seas on the continents probably buffered the temperature of the nearby air, keeping it relatively constant.

Critics also point out that the shallow seaways had retreated from and advanced on the continents numerous times during the Mesozoic, so why did the dinosaurs survive the climatic changes associated with the earlier fluctuations but not with this one?

Cousteau usually filmed large animals, usually in the open sea, whereas Painlevé generally filmed smaller animals, and he liked to film in shallow water.

Paleolithic humans - that’s the period we are talking about here, the Paleolithic, the early Stone Age, not too long after humans first arrived in Europe——the climate was significantly colder then and so rock shelters, shallow caves were valued as homes protected from the wind and rain.

It has been suggested that Pakicetus fed on fish in shallow water and was not yet adapted for life in the open ocean.

She began to hear her own taut, shallow breathing.

The amount of air exchanged is even lower in REM than NREM because, although breathing is more rapid in REM, it is also more irregular, with brief episodes of shallow breathing or absence of breathing.

According to conventional theory, yawning takes place when people are bored or sleepy and serves the function of increasing alertness by reversing, through deeper breathing, the drop in blood oxygen levels that are caused by the shallow breathing that accompanies lack of sleep or boredom.

I am not that shallow.

Scrapes consist of a clearing (about 0.5 meter in diameter) and shallow depression made by pushing aside the leaves covering the ground; after making the scrape, the deer typically urinates in the depression.