Migration and Animals
This fish runs along the southern tip of South Africa, but only some years.
What is sardines?
This kind of migration is innately hard-wired in animals, covers long distances, and the entire population participates.
What is obligate migration?
The tag used on turtles
What is SPOT tag?
Salmon are ______________ because they fresh water to salt water.
What is diadromous?
The moon is an example of this type of satellite.
What is natural?
This bird species has the longest known migratory path--it travels over the ocean from pole to pole.
What is the arctic tern?
This type of migration is "chosen" when resources are short and covers short distances.
What is facultative migration?
The tag used on sharks?
What is Pop-Up Archival?
Salmon return to their place of birth to __________, then ______.
What is spawn and die?
What is uplink?
The type of turtle species that Lulu is.
What is loggerhead?
When ALL of the members of a population are involved in a migration it is called a _________ migration.
What is complete?
What SPOT stands for
What is Smart Position or Temperature Transmitting?
The migration path of salmon is most negatively affected by the construction of ______.
What are dams?
The type of satellite that orbits 500 miles above the earth and gathers data about the earth's surface.
What is a polar satellite?
The young of this species migrate farther than the older members of the population.
What is Herring Gull?
When only some members of a population migrate at a time, it is a _____________ migration.
What is partial?
The tag with a burn-wire that releases the transmitter and a pre-determined time and sends it to the surface
What is Pop-Up Archival?
Hatcheries are negatively affecting the salmon population by reducing _____________ diversity.
What is genetic?
When information is sent from a satellite to a land computer for data analysis, it's called a _____________.
What is a downlink?
This breed of salmon returns every year to spawn at Red Lake in Idaho
What is sockeye salmon?
What is differential migration?
The tag that gathers deep ocean data on diving animals AND what it stands for
What is SLDR--satellite relay data logger?
Fish ladders were an attempt to help salmon over dams, but the fish were preyed on heavily by ___________ at these locations.
What are sea lions?
The type of satellite that only gather information from about 50 degrees N to 50 degrees S.
What is a geostationary satellite?