Dam It!
Yolk's on You
A River Runs Through It
Something's Fishy
Vocabulary
100
Blocks the San Joaquin River.
What is the Friant Dam?
100
The "stage" that we got our eggs.
What is the "eyed" stage?
100
The source of river water.
What is snow melt from the mountains?
100
A chinook salmon predator.
What are humans, bears, eagles, sea lions etc....?
100
When salmon lay eggs.
What is spawn?
200
The type of power produced by Dams.
What is hydroelectric?
200
What newly hatched salmon are called.
What is an alevin?
200
Mixes oxygen into the river water.
What are waterfalls?
200
The species of salmon in our class incubator.
What is chinook?
200
A man made lake created by damming a river.
What is a reservoir?
300
This structure allows salmon to swim over dams.
What is a fish ladder?
300
The nest made by salmon.
What is a redd?
300
A man made river bank.
What is a levee?
300
The ocean chinook salmon grow up in.
What is the Pacific?
300
The zone surrounding a river.
What is riparian?
400
The major use of water in Millerton Lake.
What is irrigation?
400
Allows water to hold more dissolved oxygen.
What is a cold temperature?
400
Makes the San Joaquin River water saltier.
What is water from the Delta?
400
Identifies a fish as coming from a hatchery.
What is a clipped fin or microchip?
400
The ear bone of a salmon.
What is the otolith?
500
Used to tell what happens to a fish that swims through a turbine.
What is a "robo fish"?
500
The marks on the side of a juvenile salmon.
What are "parr" marks?
500
Helps to clean the river water as it flows through it.
What are wetlands?
500
Allows scientists to determine how old a fish is.
What are rings on the scales?
500
A young salmon leaving fresh water and entering the ocean.
What is a smolt?
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