Timeline
Life Cycle
Vocab Words Ch. 1-3
Vocab Words Ch. 4-6
Misc.
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What comes first: Everett school students have an aquarium or students pick up trash?  

Students pick up trash

100

At what stage did the fish in the aquarium have yolk sacs on their stomachs? 

alevin 

100

Why is silt harmful to eggs? 

it suffocates them 

100

What do you call the tail fin of a salmon? 

caudal fin 

100

What did students do to make sure people didn't pollute Pigeon Creek? 

handed out signs, put signs by storm drains 

200

Order these events in chronological order:

1) When students first saw Pigeon Creek, it was muddy and filled with trash

2) Students release fry into Pigeon Creek

3) The school decides to adopt Pigeon Creek 

1, 3, 2 

200

At what stage are salmon's eyes dancing around inside of a watery sack? 

egg

200

Migrate is to come back seasonally as redd is to a: 

1) web

2) egg

3) nest

4) parr marks  

3) nest 

200

What chemical is released in the water when the fish tank is not cleaned regularly? 

ammonia 

200

What state was Pigeon Creek and Jackson elementary school in? 

Washington

300

What happened first: Students clean up Pigeon Creek or students release the fry into Pigeon Creek. 

Students clean up Pigeon Creek 

300

What are parr marks? 

Stripes on the fry's side to help it be camouflaged 

300

Alevin is to yolk sac as healthy watershed is to _____________.

1) chemical fertilizers 

2) caudal

3) gravelly bottom in streams 

4) migrate 

3) gravelly bottom in streams 

300

Ultimately, where the salmon end up that were released from Pigeon Creek? 

1) Back to their stream immediately.

2) They never went anywhere

3) to Puget Sound and possibly as far north as Alaska

4) the fry swam to the Atlantic Ocean 

3) to Puget Sound and possibly as far north as Alaska

300

Why did students want to start this project anyways? 

They wanted to see if the salmon would be able to come back based on the actions they did, which was cleaning up the creek and raising salmon to be released there. 

400
What happened at the end: Returning Coho salmon are spotted in Pigeon Creek due to Jackson Elementary School efforts or the school releases fry into Pigeon Creek

Returning Coho salmon are spotted in Pigeon Creek due to Jackson Elementary School efforts.

400

At what stage did the Jackson School students release the Coho salmon? 

Fry 

400

Which word can be chemical or organic: 

1) fertilizers

2) redd

3) alevin 

4) watershed 

1) fertilizers 

400

What type of salmon did Jackson School students release? 

Coho 

400

The Jackson Elementary school students brought back the salmon to Pigeon Creek in all ways except: 

1) they raised awareness

2) raised baby salmon

3) killed predators in a violent showdown

4) handed out fliers 

3) killed predators in a violent showdown 

500

How many events does this timeline show? 

8

500
Put in the correct order:

1) fry

2) spawning adult

3) alevin

4) egg

5) ocean adult

4, 3, 1, 5, 2  

500
What does it mean to spawn? 

fish do it, it is when sperm and eggs are mixed in the water 

500

What brings salmon back to their home creek? 

1) we think smell and instinct 

2) we think the types of rocks 

3) recognition of fish faces

4) they don't usually return 

1) we think smell and instinct 

500

What is the main point of reading this book? 

If community gets together, they can reverse the negative effects and bring nature back to life.

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