Ecosystems
This structure is built to collect and store water.
What is a dam?
Water that flows which can be traced from high in the mountains all the way to the ocean.
What a river?
This organ helps to keep a fish afloat.
What is a swim bladder?
When water goes into the air and turns into a vapor or steam.
What is evaporation?
I am a type of trout and I spend part of my life in the ocean.
What is a Steelhead Trout?
In the water, it grows on the bottom, rocks, or even floats.
What is algae?
Anything that flows from the mountains to the ocean is called this.
What is a watershed?
This line enables a fish to sense objects and movement.
What is a lateral line?
Water vapor in the air turns cold and changes back into a liquid forming clouds.
What is condensation?
In two to five years, I will return to this gravel to spawn.
What is a salmon or steelhead trout?
Animal plankton is called zooplankton and plant plankton is called phytoplankton.
What is plankton?
The North Fork, the Middle Fork, and the South Fork are part of this watershed.
What is the Yuba River Watershed?
This fish has teeth on their tongues and roof of their mouth.
What are Salmon (or) Steelhead Trout
When clouds get heavy and water falls back to earth as rain, hail, sleet or snow.
What is precipitation?
I carry my lunch with me while I grow.
What is an alevin?
I look like a small lobster and feed on small fish, snails, and insects.
What is a crawdad?
This dam stops the migration of the salmon on the Yuba River.
What is Englebright Dam?
Under a microscope this body part shows growth rings like a tree which can be used to determine age.
What are scales?
Water falls back to earth and collects in rivers, lakes, or oceans. It may become part of the ground water.
What is collection?
When I am an adult, I swim upstream until I reach my home to spawn.
What is a spawning adult?
Plants use its energy to make food, even simple water plants.
What is the sun?
What did the Nisenan tribe name the Yuba River?
What is Uba Seo?
This body part has 40 to 60 bones.
What is the skull?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection are all part of this.
What is the water cycle?
I am a type of fish that can live in both fresh and salt water.
What is anadromous?