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| examining using your senses |
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| taking a guess using prior knoledge |
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| an area where all water collets into 1 body of water |
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| water that doesn't sink in the ground after rain |
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water found on the Earh's surface
(found in lakes, streams, rvers, ect.) |
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| movent of sedments (soil) by wind or water |
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| a body of water where fresh water and salt water mix |
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| a body of water that flows into a larger body of water |
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| prevents sediment from washing down the stream |
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| Purpose Of Retention Pond |
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1. traps storm water and allows it to sink into the ground
2. sediment
3. prevents storm water from rushing into streams causing erosion |
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| a watershed is an area where all water collects into 1 body of water |
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| a retention pond is natural pond |
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| examining your senses is to infer |
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| What is the nation's largest estuary? |
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| What are the two theory's of how the Chesapeake Bay was formed? |
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1. meteorite hit the ocean
2. glaciers melted from the last ice |
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| What does Chesapeake mean? |
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| Algonquin word "Chesepioc" which means "great shellfish bay" |
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| Who explored the Chesapeake bay in the 1600s? |
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| How large is the Chesapeake Bay? |
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| What states are boundaries of the Chesapeake Bay? |
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| New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia |
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| What is brackish water and how is it formed in the Chesapeake Bay? |
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salt water and fresh water mixed
salt water from the Atlantic and fresh |
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| What are the main functions of a marsh? |
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1.filter water
2.prevent flooding
3.provides food
4.provides habitats |
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| How does a wetland filter water? |
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1.sediments and pollutants
2.gets trapped by plants |
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| How does a marsh minimize the effects of erosion? |
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1.protects shore lines
2.traps sediment |
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| What does a wetland provide for migrating birds |
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| the amount of salt contained in a given sample |
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| How is salinity measured? |
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| What is the range of salinity in the Chesapeake Bay? |
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| Where are the salinity levels the lowest in the Bay? |
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| up north near the Susquehanna River |
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| What are the 3 factors that effect salinity? |
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1.location
2.time of year
3.depth of water |
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| The salinity levels can be determine what about organisms? |
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| where sertain species live because of their behavior |
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| True or False: fall time is when the water is the saltiest |
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| chemicals and water droplets mixed |
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| chemicals and water droplets mixed |
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