A type of fish that is born in freshwater but lives most of its life in saltwater
What is anadromous?
100
Threatened with extinction
What is endangered?
100
The rise and fall of the ocean (sometimes a river) caused by gravitational pull of the moon and sun.
What is tide?
100
Having sediment or other particles suspended in the water column.
What is turbid?
200
The name for the back of the ship.
What is the stern?
200
A type of fish that is born in saltwater but lives most of its life in freshwater.
What is catadromous?
200
No longer existing or living anywhere.
What is extinct?
200
The leading edge of saltwater in an estuary.
What is saltfront?
200
Responsible for propulsion; moves the animal forward.
What is a caudal fin?
300
The name for the side of the boat that is to your right.
What is starboard?
300
A common flatfish found in the Hudson
What is a hogchoker?
300
A type of organism that uses the sun's energy to create its own food.
What is producer?
300
An inland body of water where fresh and saltwater meet.
What is an estuary?
300
The fin that is responsible for balance and stabilization.
What is dorsal fin?
400
The name for the side of the boat that is to your left.
What is port?
400
A protected prehistoric fish; two species found in the Hudson
What is sturgeon?
400
Aquatic organisms that drift with the currents; they begin the food web.
What is plankton?
400
A mixture of fresh and salt water
What is brackish?
400
The study of the relationship between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
500
Going in the direction of the bow.
What is forward?
500
Build up or collection of a substance, such as a toxic chemical, in various tissues of a living organism.
What is bioaccumulation?
500
The interdependent system of organisms where one is eaten by a number of different organisms and those organisms in turn are eaten by a number of others and so on.
What is a food web?
500
A receding tide.
What is an ebb?
500
A net used to catch aquatic life that requires two people or two boats to drag it along.