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| explaining using your senses |
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| taking a guess using prior knowledge |
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| an area where all water collects into one body of water |
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| water that doesn't sink into the ground after a rain |
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| water found on Earth's surface |
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| movement of sediment (soil) by wind and water |
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| a body of water where fresh 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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| man-made pond that holds storm water |
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1.traps stormwater and allows it to sink into the ground
2.traps sediment
3. prevents stormwater from rushing into streams causing erosion |
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| The Chesapeake Bay is the natoin's smallest estuary. |
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| What were the two theories about how the Ch. Bay was formed? |
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| One is that a meteorite hit the ocean thirty-five million years ago. The second one is the huge volume of melting ice caused sea levels to rise. |
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| Captian John Smith explored the Ch. Bay in the early 1600s. |
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| How many square miles long is the Ch. Bay. |
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| The Ch. Bay is 64,000 miles long |
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| The Ch. Bay watershed's boundries include New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Virginia. |
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| What happens when fresh water reaches the Ch.Bay, and it mixes with salt water from the Atlantic Ocean? |
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| What does the word "Chesapeake" mean? |
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| examples of point source pollution |
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| smokestacks and pipes from large industrial plants. |
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| point source pollution is hard to spot. |
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| non-point source pollution |
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| examples of non-point source |
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| fertilizers, pesticides, oil, trash, and nutrients |
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| non-point sourece pollution is hard to regulate |
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| chemicals and coaster droplets |
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| smothers fish eggs and oyster bars |
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| What are the four types of ch.bay pollution |
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a. acid rain
b. fertilizer
c. garbage
d. sediment |
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| is the amount of salt contained in a given sample of water. |
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| Salinity is measured in parts per thousand |
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| What is the salinity range in the Ch. Bay? |
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| The range of salinity in the bay is from 1 to 29 ppt's. |
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| The three factors that effect salinity. |
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loction.
time of year.
depth of water. |
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| Where is the lowest salinity in the Bay. |
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| In the Upper Bay justed below the Susquehanna River. |
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| What can salinity determine about organisms. |
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| Salinity can determine what plants and animals are found in that area. |
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| What does a wetland provide for migratory birds? |
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| How does a marsh minimize the affects of erosion? |
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By protecting shore line envierments
By traping sediment |
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| How does a wetland filter water? |
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| pollutants and sediment are trapped by the marsh |
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| What are the main functions of a marsh? |
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prevent flooding
filter
food
habitat |
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