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| Submerged Aquatic Vegetation |
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1. food source(ducks, geese, and crabs)
2. provide habitat for crabs and small fish
3. protect bottom from erosion
4.provide oxygen |
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| What causes SAV's to disappear? |
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1.buried by sediment(construction and farms)
2.algae blocks sunlight( too much fertilizers)
3.toxic chemicals |
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| organisms which passively drift with the current |
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| microscopic plant: by far the most numerous plankton in the bay |
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| are animals whose movements are controlled by tital current |
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| never grow to be bigger than the tip of a pencil |
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| another name for a food chain |
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| how big until a oyster is legal to catch |
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| true or false: crabs have a the ability to change gender |
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| by sucking water through their shells and filtering out |
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| how long did it take to filter the whole chesapeake bay |
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| how long does it take to filter the Chesapeake Bay today |
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| 3 factors to oyster demise |
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| Overharvesting, Disease, and sedimitation |
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| when the crab sheds its shell |
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| larvel form crabs are considered... |
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| atlantic blue crabs have how many legs |
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| larvel form crabs are considered... |
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| atlantic blue crabs have how many legs |
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| shells are also called... |
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| what fraction of legal sized crabs are caught |
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| What is another name for a Rockfish |
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| law saying you can't catch fish |
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| What do mature rockfish eat |
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| fish, soft crabs, and eel |
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| rockfish spent most of their lives in |
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| where do juvinile rockfish live |
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| shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| try to blend in with their colors |
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| why has rockfish pop. recovered |
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5 year moratorium
restoration of spawning grounds |
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| What are their predators? |
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| rock fish, blue fish, trout, drum |
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| What do humans use them for? |
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| What is Omega Protein and what do they do? |
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| which is larger the male or the female terrapin |
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| how can you tell the terrapins age |
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warmer the tep. which gender is born
terrapin |
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colder the tep. which gender is born
terrapin |
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| why was the terrapin pop. low |
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