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| Suberged Aquatic vegition |
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| 1. food source geese, ducks, crabs 2. habitat small fish, molting crabs 3. stabalize bay bottom/ filters traps sediment 4. provide o2 |
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| 1. sediment erosion clouds water no light 2 to much algae from fertilerzer cloudy water 3. toxic chemicials acid rain roundup kill |
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| How do crabs begin their lives |
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| What is it called when a crab sheds its shell |
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| when the eggs hatch small larval crabs called |
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| The second and third and fourth pairs of legs behind the front claws are used |
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| for walking along the bottom of the bay |
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| It is estimated that three out of every four legal sized blue carb |
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| in ch peake bay are caught and eaten each year. |
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| Juvenile attached oysters are called |
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| oysters species is their ability to change |
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| by sucking water into their shells and filtering out small plants called phytoplankton. |
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| oysters were once abudant |
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| that they filtered the entire water volume. |
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| on percent of the historic population remaining |
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| that the same takes 3 to four years |
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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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| copepods which never grow to be bigger than the tip of a pencil |
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| crabs begin their lives as |
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| interconnected system is known as the |
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| another name for rockfish is |
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| rockfish live much of their lives in the |
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| begin their lives in shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| Wat do humans us them for |
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| What is Omega protein and what do they do? |
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| they are a company and they make all different types of products |
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| clams mussels fish mollusks |
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| affects gender of off spring |
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| hard cover with pointy ends |
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| true or false an oyster can filter and entire water volume of the cheaspeake bay in few days |
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| what do mature striped bass eat |
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| fish, soft crabs and eels |
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| true or false they used to be used in soup |
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| what is omega protein and what do they do |
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| company that process mehaden |
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| true or false an oyster can filter and entire water volume of the cheaspeake bay in few days |
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| what do mature striped bass eat |
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| true or false they used to be used in soup |
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| what is omega protein and what do they do |
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| company that process mehaden |
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| True or false The legal size for oysters is 5 inches |
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| SAV provide carbon dioxide to the water |
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| The life span of a crab is 5 years |
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| What percent of the earth's water is freshwater |
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| Plankton are important because |
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| they produce food to large animals and produces most of the earth's oxygen |
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