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| Submerged Aquatic Vegetation |
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They protect the bottom from erosion.
Provide habitat
Food source
Provide o2 (oxygen) |
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| What animals feed on SAVs? |
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| What are females that migrate up the bay to find large males called? |
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| What are large males called? |
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| What is it called when a crab sheds? |
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| zoea are at the mercy and are considered this |
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| How long does a a crab live? |
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| Approximately three years |
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| How many legs do crabs have? |
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| Hard and covered with pointy ends which provide further protection from predators. |
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| How many legal sized blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are caught and eaten every year? |
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| Three out of evry four blue crabs in the Chesapeake bay are caught and eaten each year. |
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| Organsims which passiely drift with the current. |
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| Animals whose movements are controlled by tidal current. |
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| zooplankton that never grow to be bigger than the tip of a pencil |
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| What's another name for a rockfish? |
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| A law that you cannot catch fish |
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| What do mature rockfish eat? |
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| Fish, soft crabs, and eels |
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| Where do rockfish spend most of their lives? |
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| In the saltwater of the ocean |
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| Where do juvenile stripers live? |
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| Shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| When fish belnd in with their surroundings so that they can't be found by predators lurking. |
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| Why has rockfish population recovered? |
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1)5 year moratorium
2) Restoration of spawning grounds |
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| By using their mouths to suck and filter food. |
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| Phytoplankton and other small fish. |
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| What are their predators? |
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| What do humans use them for? |
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| Crab bait, fish bait and chum |
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| What is omega protein and what do they do? |
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| A company that catches, proecesses and eats fish. |
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| What do diamondback terrapins feed on? |
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| Mollusks, including clams, and mussells |
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| What type of water do they live in? |
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| True or false? Females are larger than males |
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| How can you tell how old a turtle is? |
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| By the rings on the shell |
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| What happens when the temperature is warmer? |
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| Why are diamondback terrapins protected by the government? |
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| Years ago, humans used to use them to make turtle soup |
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| Why is the SAV population decreasing? |
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1) Sediment smothers it and blocks sunlight from getting to it.
2) There are too many nutrients entering the bay such as fertilizer, and human waste or sewage) |
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| Are oysters the same gender for their entire life? |
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| No, oysters are bisexual. |
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| Oysters eat by sucking water into their shells and filtering out small plants called phytoplankton. |
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