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| Submerged aquatic vegetation. |
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food sources
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traps sediment, protects floor from erosion
Provides o2 |
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| why are SAV disappearing? |
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sediment smothus + blocks sunlight
Nutrients algea bloom-> blocks sunlight
chemicals kills it |
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| beginning of a crabs life |
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| another name for a female |
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| losing their shell in order to grow |
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| first stage of their life |
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| second stage of their life |
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| how many legs do crabs have? |
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| hard cover with pointy ends |
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| True or false Three out of four legal sized blue crabs from the Chesaepeke bay are eaten each year |
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| what are juvenile oysters called? |
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| how long does a oyster have to be able to be caught? |
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| what gender is an oyster? |
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| it eats by filtering the water throw their shell |
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| true or false? an oyster can filter an entire water volume of the chesapeke bay in a few days. |
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| how has the population effected this process? |
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| there are less oysters causing a slower process |
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| what have led to oysters Demise? |
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| Overharvesting, msx and Dermo, sediment build up |
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| organisms that drift with the current. |
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| microscopic organisms that are by far the numerios in the bay |
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| they are animals that drift with the current and many are Copepods |
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| They are a type of Zooplankton that never grows bigger then a pencil tip |
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| it is an Interconnected system of what animals eat |
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| what is another name for rockfish |
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| what do mature striped bass eat? |
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| fish, soft crabs, and eels |
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| where do mature rockfish hang out |
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| where do juvenile rock fish live? |
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| why have rockfish made a great recovery |
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| 15y moratorium restored spawning grounds |
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| what are their predators? |
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| what do humans use menhaden for? |
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| crab + fish bait, oil, fertilizers, animal food |
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| what is Omega Protein and what do they do? |
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| company of that processes Menhaden |
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| What do diamond back terripan eat |
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| True or false it is the only turtle in the world to live in brackish water, |
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| What defines a diamond back terripans age? |
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| True or false they used to be used in soup |
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| What determines the turtles gender |
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