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| Submerged aquatic vegitation. |
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Food source (geese, ducks,crabs)
Habitat (crabs, small fish)
Traps sediment, protects floor from erosion
Provides H2O |
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| Why are Sav's disappering? |
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Sediment smothers and blocks sunlight
Too many nutriants (fertalizer, sewage treatment plows)
Chemicals kill it (oil, lawn chemicals) |
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| another name of a female crab |
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| another name of a male carb |
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| the name of a small larvea crab |
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| the secound stage of a crab |
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| How many legs do a blue crab have? |
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| it is its own coat of armor. It is also a hard covering with spikes |
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| How many crabs out of four are cooked and eaten each year? |
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| What are juvenile oysters called? |
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| What is the legal size that a crab has to be in order to be caught and easten? |
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| The have no designated gender they are bisexual/ both |
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| Oysters eat by sucking water into their shells and filtering out small plants called phytoplankton. |
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| True or False? Oysters were once so abundant that they could filter the bay in three to four days. |
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| What percent of the historic population of oysters are still remaining? |
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| What have led to the oysters' demise? |
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| What led to the oysters decrees in population 1. Overharvesting 2. MSX and Dermo 3.the sediment from land development. |
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| they are organisums which drift with the current. |
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| True or False? phytoplankton are the most numerous in the bay, and there most common form is algae. |
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| They are zooplankton that never grow to be bigger than a tip of a pencil. |
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It is a web where the bigger animals eat the smaller animals.
Example: Osprey and Heron eat large fish, large fish eat small fish, small fish eat Zoplankton, Zooplankton eat Phytoplankton. |
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| what is another name for a rockfish? |
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| what do mature rockfish eat |
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| where do rockfish spend their adult hood? |
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| where do juvunile rockfish live |
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| the marshs because of food and protection |
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| what is counter shadding? |
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| counter shading is a type of camoflauge |
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| Why have rockfished recovered |
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| rockfish have revovered because of the 5 year moritorium and they have restored spawning beds |
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| Manhaden eat by filtering the water and that allows sun to get to sav's |
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| What are their predators? |
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| Brids, rockfish, blufish, humans |
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| What do humans use them for? |
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| Lipstick, dog food, bait for crabs and other fish, cheese baccon etc. |
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| What is Omega Orotien? What do they do? |
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| Omega protien is the proces of people in helacopters and they look for schools of manhaden and catch most of them. It is also the process of manhaden |
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| What determins wheather the turtle is male or female. |
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| If it is cold outside then it will become a male, but if it is warm outside then it will become a female |
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| What do diamondback turtles eat? |
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| Mollusk, small fish, and mussels etc |
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| How do you know how old a turtle is? |
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| You count the markings on the shell |
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| True or False? The male diamondback is smaller than the female? |
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| True- the female is larger than the male |
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| Why has the diamondback population decreased? |
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| The diamondback population had decreased a lot because we killed them and put them in soup |
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