Birds
What is the scientific name for the Great Egret?
Ardea alba
What phylum is the starfish in?
Echinoderm
What phylum is blue crab in?
Arthropod
What is the salinity of the ocean?
35 ppt
What was the net called we used to catch fish?
Seine net
What does a Little Blue Heron eat?
Fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and insects
How do starfish move?
Tubefeet
What state has blue crabs as its number one fishery?
North Carolina
What is turbidity?
A measure of the clarity of water
What is the function of an aerator?
Adds oxygen to water for the fish.
What type of feet does the laughing gull have?
Paddling
List the possible ways a starfish can reproduce.
Either sexually through "broadcast spawning" or asexually through regeneration
Horseshoe crabs are not true crabs so what are they more closely related to instead?
Spiders
How is oxygen absorbed into water?
Produced as a by-product of photosynthesis or absorbed from the atmosphere
The marsh we went to was a restoration project, what was that location 20 years ago?
A parking lot
What does it mean for a bird to be a opportunistic?
They consume whatever food is available, whenever it is available, rather than seeking out a strict or specific diet
What part of the starfish is for digestion?
Pyloric cecum
What are the two ways you can tell the gender of blue crabs?
Its apron (Tower vs triangle) or its claws (nail polish or no?)
Name three things that could change the salinity of a body of water.
Weather (excessive rain), glacial melt, evaporation, discharge of fresh river water into salt water, Estuaries
Are we as humans more closely related to sea squirts or sea urchins?
Sea Squirts. We are both in the phylum Chordata
What bird is UNCW's mascot? We are called the Seahawks but that bird does not exist.
Osprey
What were the two things a starfish needs in order to clone itself?
Part of its arm and radial center
What kind of joints do humans have that blue crab also have?
Ball and socket
What is eutrophication?
Excessive enrichment of water by rainwater runoff containing fertilizers (nutrients) which triggers explosive plant and algae growth
Give me two examples of Tunicate's we collected at the docks.
Sea squirt, sea pork, sea liver