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Water
Salt Marsh
Whales
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
The percentage of water on Earth that is saltwater.
What is 97%?
100
The number of types of protected birds that live in the salt marshes of Cape Cod.
What is two?
100
The 3 types of whales that live in the Cape Cod region.
What are Humpback, Minke, and Finback?
100
The scientific name of a whales tail.
What is fluke?
100
The dates the 5th graders are on the whale watch trip.
What are May 28th, 29th, and 30th.
200
The charge that is associated with the Hydrogen atom.
What is positive?
200
The fish that has been removed from the salt marsh ecosystem due to over fishing.
What is striped bass?
200
One part of a whale that scientists may use tfor photo identification.
What is fluke, dorsal fin?
200
The top of a wave.
What is crest?
200
The band instruments that Mr. Costanzo plays in class and lessons, that he is the worst at playing.
What is the oboe?
300
When water turns from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
300
This animal has become over abundant in the salt marshes.
What is purple marsh crab?
300
The name of the family the Humpback whale belongs to.
What is Rorqual?
300
Saltmeadow Cordgrass
What is one of the grasses that make up a salt marsh?
300
The most germaphobic student in the 5th grade.
Who is Braiden?
400
The term used to describe water that is in the ground.
What is ground water?
400
Where the largest salt marsh is located.
What is Barnstable?
400
Another name for the finback whale?
What is Greyhound of the Sea?
400
The name for when a whale makes a deep dive.
What is sound?
400
One of the members of the French band J'aime les frites.
Who is Marlin, Caleb, Garrett, Greg, Braiden.
500
One of the tests we performed on the water in Allen Creek.
What is pH, nitrates, phosphates, bacteria?
500
The Works Progress Administration decided to dig run-off ditches to combat the overpopulation of these.
What are mosquito's?
500
The whale of Cape Cod that has 2 blowholes.
What is the Minke?
500
An area where freshwater meets the sea.
What is an estuary?
500
The first unit we did in 5th grade STEM this year.
What is NXT Robotic?