Tides
The causes of Earth's tides.
What are the Sun and Moons gravitational pull.
The amount of salt in the water.
Oysters prefer to live and grow on these types of surfaces.
What are hard/firm surfaces?
How species of fish migrated over the Rocky Mountains (Continental Divide)
What is.... no one knows for sure?
How many types of fish are native to Lake Crescent?
What is two?
Low tide occurs this number of times per day.
What is two?
What are spray zone, high intertidal, medium intertidal, and low intertidal?
What are algae, dolphins, fish, crustaceans, mollusks, sea anenomes, and sea birds. And seat otters!
Where anadromus fish (such as the salmon) are born.
What is fresh water?
One type of ecosystem that benefits from oyster reefs.
What are mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marshes?
The two different types of high tides.
What are spring (king) and neap tides?
Organisms that live in the intertidal zone.
What are crabs, sea stars, kelp, sand dollars, clams, barnacles, mussels, oysters, algae, and snails?
Economic benefits of oyster reefs.
What are tourism, commercial fishing, education, research, and restoration?
Where anadromus fish (such as the salmon) spend most of their adult lives.
What is salt water?
This is formed when the tide goes out, leaving a large puddle of water for sea animals to take refuge in.
What is a tide pool?
True or false, high tides and low tides are always the same elevation.
What is false?
The number of different species in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
One major benefit that oysters provide to the ecosystems around them.
What are water filtering and erosion filtering.
A major event (such as landslides, droughts, hurricanes, and forest fires) that can drastically change the population of a species.
What is a stochastic event?
These brackets show the relationships between various species of organisms.
What is the phylogenetic tree?
Activities that rely on the tides.
What are fishing, boating, research on beaches, etc?
The slope of an intertidal zone.
What is gradient?
Cultural benefits from oyster reefs.
What are: artistic, sense of place, history, heritage, and fesitvals?
This is the only species of Pacific Salmon that doesn't live on the coasts of North America.
What is the Masu Salmon?
This is what left of a given species after an event almost wipes them out.
What is a relic species? (it was in the packet you were supposed to read)