Estuaries
A common fish that can move from freshwater to saltwater!
What is salmon?
The season that flowers start to bloom.
What is spring?
This is what a marsh is called when water from the ocean washes into the marsh.
What is a saltwater marsh?
True or false: the forests we have in Oregon are tropical.
What is false?
This is the name of the body of water we live on!
What is a bay (Coos Bay)?
Estuaries are like a big sponge that absorbs lots of water. Estuaries can protect us from this natural event by absorbing water.
What are floods?
True or False: eelgrass is a type of plant that grows under trees.
What is false?
Plants in marshes are designed to survive in soil that has lots of water. What is it called when a plant or animal has characteristics that fit their environment?
What are adaptations?
This animal is large, hibernates in the winter, and depends on forests to raise its young and find food like berries.
What is a black bear?
An area of land that collects lots of water and drains it into the same place.
What is a watershed?
These animals live in the water and aren't from Oregon. They hurt other crabs by taking their space and food.
What are green crabs?
What do trees with needles produce that help them spread seeds to grow other trees?
What are pinecones?
This animal loves marshes and uses trees found in marshes, like willows, to build their homes and create a space where they are safe from predators.
What is a beaver?
This is what some animals, like insects or birds, in the forest do to hide from predators and blend into their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
This bird depends on fish and other animals that live in estuaries. It has a sharp beak with long legs, and gray feathers.
What is a Great Blue Heron?
An area where the river meets the sea! Where freshwater and saltwater mix to create brackish water.
What is the estuary?
Name a plant from Oregon that has berries. Bonus: name two for an extra hundred points.
What is huckleberry, salmonberry, salal, or thimbleberry?
A habitat where the land is covered with water for most or all of the year.
What is a wetland?
Name one tree you might find in a forest in Oregon.
What is Red Cedar, Port Orford Cedar, Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Sitka Spruce, Shore Pine, Cascara, or Red Alder?
This body of water covers 70% of the Earth!
What is the ocean?
Estuaries are an important habitat for many young fish, crabs, and other marine organisms. What is a habitat called when it protects young animals?
What is a nursery?
Name three things plants need to survive.
What is sun, water, and soil?
This plant is common in freshwater marshes and grows big green leaves with a yellow flower. Hint: It has a distinct smell.
What is skunk cabbage?
Name a reason why forests are important. Bonus: name two for an extra hundred points.
What is: they provide oxygen for us to breathe, they help clean our air, they provide habitat for many animals and plants, we use wood from trees to make lots of things, they provide shade so the soil doesn't get too hot, and they clean water?
Name a reason why it's important to have clean water.
What is: drinking dirty water can make us sick, animals that live in water can't breathe when water is dirty, and dirty water can hurt plants.