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| submerge aqatic vegatation |
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food souce ducks, geese, crabs
shelter/habitat small fish, molting crabs
stabilize bay floor
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| toxic chemicals kill them |
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| What do blue crabs start as |
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| When the eggs hatch, small larval crabs called |
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| Prevailing winds and currents sweep them back into the bay where the lucky ones eventually grow into another larval from called |
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| when do they reach there sexual |
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| what provides protection for the crabs |
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| Junvenile attached oysters called |
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| how old can they be to be bisexual |
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| how big do they have to be to get cought and eaten |
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| Oysters eat by sucking water into their shells and filtering out small plants called |
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| what is the percent of historic population remaining |
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| as organisms which passively drift with the current |
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| Microscopic plants called |
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| phytoplankton are by far the most numerous plankton in the bay |
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| animals whose movements are controlled by tidal current |
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| what provides food for the Zooplankton |
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| phytoplankton provide food for the Zooplankton |
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| what is another name for strip bass |
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| where do rockfish live for their most life |
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| where do baby rockfish live |
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| shallow marshes grass bed |
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| what is the system of counter shading |
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| its when they are camoflage into the grass to hide |
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| why has the rockfish population come back |
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1.5 year moratorium
2.spawning grounds |
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| what do humans use them for |
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| only turtle in the world found in the brackish water |
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| feeds on mussels clams fish |
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| female is larger then the male |
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| warmer temperature more eggs hatchas females |
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| you can tell age by rings on the shell |
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| population decimated years ago because they were used in soup |
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| true or false 3 out of 4 crabs are eaten |
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| what is the percent of oysters |
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| what are blue crabs when they are boring |
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