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Grant Talbot
Chesapeake Watershed #2
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7th Grade
10/07/2013
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What does SAV stand for
 Definition
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
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Why are SAV important
 Definition
food source, habitat, traps sediment protects floor erosion, provides o2
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Why are SAV disappearing
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sediment smothurs and blocks sunlight, nutrients, chemicals kill it
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Spat
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juvenile oyster
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If an oyster is three inches long you can
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catch them
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oysters can
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change gender
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oysters eat by
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sucking up plankton and filtering it through there shell
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Larvae
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babies organisms
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Sooks
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female crabs
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jimmies
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male crabs
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Molts
 Definition
crab shell
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Zoea
 Definition
larval crabs
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megalops
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second larval form
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Zoea are
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zooplankton
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Crabs live
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three years
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Blue crabs have
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ten legs
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Exoskeleton
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shell
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Oysters were
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Abundant
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The oyster process takes
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three to four years
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The factors to lead to the oysters demise were
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overharvesting, diseases, and sedimentation
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Plankton are
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micro organisms that move with the current
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Phtoplankton are
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plankton in plant form such as algae
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Zooplakton are
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plankton in an animal form sch as copepods
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Copepods are
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forms of zooplankton
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The foodweb makes up
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the fight for survival (one species eating another)
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Copepods are
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forms of zooplankton
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Rockfish are
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striped bass
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moratorium is
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a ban
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rockfish
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eat eels,sof shell crabs, and large quantities of fish
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Rockfish live much of their lives in the
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saltwater of the ocean
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most juvenile rockfish live in
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small marshes and grass beds
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what is counter shading
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camoflauge
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wqhy did rockfish make a great recovery
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they put restorational spawning grounds in
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diamond back terrapins eat
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mussels snails clams fish worms
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only turtle in the world that lives in
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brackish water
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rings on shell tell
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age
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females larger than
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males
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used to be in
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soup
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temperature determines
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gender
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