A dam here in town.
What is Railroad Pond?
OR
What is Papergoods Pond?
OR
Silver Lake
OR
The dam behind the house on Tollgate
OR
The dam on Orchard Road
A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level.
What is a dam?
A movie featuring a clownfish.
What is Finding Nemo?
Necessary to provide a plentiful supply of oxygen to allow salmon eggs to develop.
What are clean flowing streams?
The length of time after the first year of life that a salmon will stay in the river before beginning its journey in the ocean.
What is one to three years?
When McGee was first opened.
What is 1969?
The room number for the bandroom.
What is 101?
The yearbook advisers.
Who are Mrs. Peterson and Miss Cardines?
Four reasons why dams were built.
What are:
To provide motive force?
To provide water for trains?
To conserve water for drinking?
To control flooding?
The term for a fish that can survive in both freshwater and salt water.
What is anadromous?
An unrealistic 1978 horror movie franchise that featured carnivorous fish that hunt in schools.
What is Piranha?
Black dots visible through the egg membrane.
What are eyes?
The term for salmon that have emerged from the gravel that they have been hiding in.
What are fry?
This 7th grade teacher actually runs several miles a day.
Who is Mr. Crean?
Mr. Holland's room.
What is 202?
The former head coach for Girls Track and member of the US National Running Team.
Who is Mr. Keefe?
Five specific ways that dams harm salmon.
What are:
They prevent salmon from reaching their breeding ground.
They prevent salmon from going downstream.
A hydro station over-oxygenates water.
Changes water temperature.
Changes the bottom of a river or stream.
The term for an animal (or coconut) that moves from one region to another according to calendar or season.
What is migratory?
A misnamed 2004 film about a fish who is mistakenly believed to have murdered the son of a shark mob boss.
What is Shark Tale?
The correct term for a newly hatched salmon.
What are alevin?
The term for a salmon that is ready to or is migrating to its feeding ground.
What is a smolt?
Mr. Urso's job before he became an administrator.
What is a science teacher?
The room number for Mrs. Orabi.
What is 228?
The longest-serving coach in Berlin.
Who is Mr. Keefe?
The year the first dam completely blocked the main stem of the Connecticut River.
When is 1798?
The term for the main part of a river.
What is a stem?
One of Ariel's closest friends (not the crab).
Who is Flounder?
What is a parr?
Obstacles that make it difficult for salmon to return to the river of their hatching.
What are dams and waterfalls?
This 7th grade teacher is or was an assistant coach with the Cross Country team.
Who is Mr. Dix?
OR
Who is Mr. Cormack?
Mrs. Mahaffy's room number.
What is 223?
The Chess Club adviser.
Who is Mr. Beaupre?
The first dam to completely block the main channel of the Connecticut River.
What is the Holyoke Dam?
The term for a waterway that terminates (ends) in a larger waterway or river.
What is a tributary?
A 1979 Stephen Spielberg film that features the line "I think you're going to need a bigger boat."
What is Jaws?
About how many times will a salmon make its journey to spawn in the river of its hatching?
An animal often mistaken for salmon.
What is a trout?
Although not a percussionist, this teacher played drums in marching band in college.
Who is Mrs. Terlecky?
OR
Who is Mr. Cormack?
Mrs. McCorkel's room.
What is 106?
The head wrestling coach.
Who is Mr. Dix?
A Connecticut state agency tasked with protecting the environment.
What is the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection?
OR (it's old name)
What is the Department of Environmental Protection?
Generating electricity through use of moving water.
What is hydroelectric?
A 2008 movie about a goldfish child that wants to be a boy.
What is Ponyo?
The term for a salmon that has spawned and is returning to its feeding ground.
What is a kelt?
Gravel
Where salmon eggs are hidden for safety.
What is Technology Education?
Mrs. St. Jarre's room number?
What is Lib-C?
The head coach for Cross Country.
Who is Mr. Griswold?
A national agency tasked with protecting wildlife.
What is the United States Fish and Wildlife Service?
The science term for the energy used to drive equipment.
What is motive power?
A 2006 IMAX movie narrated by Johnny Depp that looks at various types of life in the ocean.
What is Deep Sea 3D?
The correct name for the process that prepares a salmon for life in saltwater.
What is smolting?
They dictate when a salmon will return to spawn in the river of its hatching.
What are hormones?
This McGee teacher ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) on a broken foot.
Who is Mr. Plona?
The room number for the lecture hall closest to the office.
What is Lecture B?
The person who ran the Photography Club for 19 years.
Who is Mr. Cormack?