What comes first: Everett school students have an aquarium or students pick up trash?
Students pick up trash
At what stage did the fish in the aquarium have yolk sacs on their stomachs?
alevin
Why is silt harmful to eggs?
it suffocates them
What do you call the tail fin of a salmon?
caudal fin
What did students do to make sure people didn't pollute Pigeon Creek?
handed out signs, put signs by storm drains
Order these events in chronological order:
1) When students first saw Pigeon Creek, it was muddy and filled with trash
2) Students release fry into Pigeon Creek
3) The school decides to adopt Pigeon Creek
1, 3, 2
At what stage are salmon's eyes dancing around inside of a watery sack?
egg
Migrate is to come back seasonally as redd is to a:
1) web
2) egg
3) nest
4) parr marks
3) nest
What chemical is released in the water when the fish tank is not cleaned regularly?
ammonia
What state was Pigeon Creek and Jackson elementary school in?
Washington
What happened first: Students clean up Pigeon Creek or students release the fry into Pigeon Creek.
Students clean up Pigeon Creek
What are parr marks?
Stripes on the fry's side to help it be camouflaged
Alevin is to yolk sac as healthy watershed is to _____________.
1) chemical fertilizers
2) caudal
3) gravelly bottom in streams
4) migrate
3) gravelly bottom in streams
Ultimately, where the salmon end up that were released from Pigeon Creek?
1) Back to their stream immediately.
2) They never went anywhere
3) to Puget Sound and possibly as far north as Alaska
4) the fry swam to the Atlantic Ocean
3) to Puget Sound and possibly as far north as Alaska
Why did students want to start this project anyways?
They wanted to see if the salmon would be able to come back based on the actions they did, which was cleaning up the creek and raising salmon to be released there.
Returning Coho salmon are spotted in Pigeon Creek due to Jackson Elementary School efforts.
At what stage did the Jackson School students release the Coho salmon?
Fry
Which word can be chemical or organic:
1) fertilizers
2) redd
3) alevin
4) watershed
1) fertilizers
What type of salmon did Jackson School students release?
Coho
The Jackson Elementary school students brought back the salmon to Pigeon Creek in all ways except:
1) they raised awareness
2) raised baby salmon
3) killed predators in a violent showdown
4) handed out fliers
3) killed predators in a violent showdown
How many events does this timeline show?
8
1) fry
2) spawning adult
3) alevin
4) egg
5) ocean adult
4, 3, 1, 5, 2
fish do it, it is when sperm and eggs are mixed in the water
What brings salmon back to their home creek?
1) we think smell and instinct
2) we think the types of rocks
3) recognition of fish faces
4) they don't usually return
1) we think smell and instinct
What is the main point of reading this book?
If community gets together, they can reverse the negative effects and bring nature back to life.