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| submerged aquatic vegetation |
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food source(geese, ducks, crabs)
habitat(small fish, molting crabs)
stabilize Bay bottom/filters+traps sediment
provide oxygen |
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sediment clouds water-> no light
too much algae-> cloudy water
toxic chemicals- kill them |
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| what do crabs begin their lives as |
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| what is another name for female crabs |
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| what is another name for male crabs |
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| what is it called when a crab sheds its shell |
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| when the crabs egg hatches what are the small larval crabs called |
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| what is the second larval form called |
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| zoea that are at the mercy of the current are called |
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| how many legs do crabs have |
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| what is the crabs shell called |
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| how many legal sized crabs are caught in the ch. bay and eaten each year |
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| how long does an oyster have to be to be caught legally |
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| what ability do oysters have |
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| they eat by sucking water into their shells and filtering out small plants called phytoplankton |
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| what could the oysters do when they were abundant in the ch. bay |
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| filter the entire volume of the ch. bay in only a few days |
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| how long does it take to filter the bay now |
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| what factors have led to the oysters demise |
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| overhavesting, msx and dermo, no hard surfaces |
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| what are plankton defined as |
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| organisms which drift with the current |
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| many zooplankton are these |
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| what is another name for rockfish |
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| a ban on hunting or fishing |
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| where do they spend most of their lives |
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| what do most juvenile fish begin their lives |
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| shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| what has led to a recovery of rockfish |
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| moratorium and restoration of traditional spawning grounds |
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| what do diamondback turtles eat |
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| how can you tell their age |
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| what affects the gender of offspring |
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| what type of water does it live in |
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| why did terripins desimate |
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| they are filter feeders so they eat by filtering the water |
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| what are menhadens predators |
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| rockfish, bluefish, osprey humans |
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| what do humans use them for |
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