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Chesapeake Bay Watershed #2
Peter McCulloh
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Science
7th Grade
10/07/2013

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what are blue crabs when they are first born
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larve asdedededsz
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lava eventually evolve into a
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megalops
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Why are SAV's disapearing
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Toxins, Sedement, to much alge
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how many legs does a crab have
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10 legs
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females are called
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sooks
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what is it called when a crab sheds it shells
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molts
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when eggs hatch they are called
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zoea
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zoea are considered
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zooplancton
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male are called
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jimmies
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What does SAV stand for
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Submerged aquatic vegatation
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Why is SAV important
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Food, Habbitat, Oxegen 02, stabolizes the bay floor
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how long do crabs usually live for
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3 years
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what is the outer coat of a crab called
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exoskeleton
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true or false 3 out of 4 crabs are eaten
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true
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juvenile attached oysters are called
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spat
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when a oyster is 3 inches long it can be
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caught and eaten
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oyster can change gender true or false
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true
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oyster eat by
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sucking water into there shelf filtering out zooplanton
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true or false oysters don't improve the water by filtering it
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false
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today there is only ____ of the oyster population alive
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1%
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what are the three ways oysters die
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the diseases Msx and Dermo and obverharvisting
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plankton
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defined organisms which passively drift with the current
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phytoplankton
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most common plankton in the bay
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zooplankton
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animals that are controled by the tidal current
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copepods
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zooplankton that never grow to be bigger than the tip of a pencil
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food web
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the interconnected system
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what is another name for the striped bass
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rockfish
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moratorium
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a ban on fishing or hunting
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what do rockfish eat
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fish, soft crabs, eel
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where do rockfish live for most of there lives
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in saltwater
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where do juvinille fish begin
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large grass beds
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what is rockfishes use as camoflage
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counter shading
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solution to the rockfish population
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a 5 year moratorium was made and spawning grounds saved
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how do menhaden eat
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by sucking up algae like a vacuum
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what do they eat
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algae ( Phytoplancton)
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what are there predators
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stripped bass and blue fish
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what do humans use them for
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dog food, fish bait, act.
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What is omega protein and what do they do
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a company that turns it into product
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QHAT IS THE ONLY TURTLE THAT CAN LIVE INBRACKISH WATER
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A DIMONDBACK TERIPAN
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what do dimondback teripans feed on
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musceles, clams, fish
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true or false females are bigger than males
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females
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what happens when it gets warmer
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more eggs
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how do u tell there age
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by the rings of there shell
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true or false population was desamaed because there use uf soup
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true
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