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100
Many of these, our national bird, live near the Bay.
What are bald eagles?
100

Is 1408, 1608, or 1808, the year that John Smith explored and chartered the Bay?

What is 1608?

100
The Bay has 2700 species of these. (plants, finfish, waterfowl, or shellfish)
What are plants?
100
The Bay is an inlet of this ocean.
What is the Atlantic?
100
It's the largest city and port on the Bay.
What is Baltimore?
200
These, along with whales, sometimes swim into the Bay from the ocean.
What are dolphins?
200
Along with over-fishing, this is causing the Bay to decline.
What is pollution?
200
The Bay has 29 species of these. (plants, finfish, waterfowl, or shellfish)
What are waterfowl?
200
The Bay is linked to the Delaware River and Delaware Bay by a canal named for this state.
What is Delaware?
200
This penninsula, which the Bay separates from Virginia and Maryland's mainland, is named for three states.
What is the Delmarva Peninsula?
300
Every year, one million waterfowl feed on the Bay during this season.
What is winter?
300

They named the Bay the Tschiswapeki.

Who are Native Americans?

300
The Bay has 348 species of these. (plants, finfish, waterfowl, or shellfish)
What are finfish?
300
Of the the Ohio, the Rappahannock, or the Pocomoke, the river that does not feed into the Bay.
What is the Ohio?
300
It's the largest island in the Bay.
What is Kent Island?
400
Some people sleep in water beds, but these are meant to protect juvenile fish and blue crabs from predators.
What are underwater seabeds?
400
The Bay was formed a very long time ago, when the ground was hit by these.
What are meteorites?
400
The Bay has 173 species of these. (plants, finfish, waterfowl, or shellfish)
What are shellfish?
400
The Bay is a drowned estuary of this river.
What is the Susquehannah?
400
One can enter the Bay through a 12-mile gap between Cape Henry and this other Cape in Virginia.
What is Cape Charles?
500
Since birds can't drive, this is the "road" they take to fly along the Atlantic seashore.
What is the Atlantic Flyway?
500
Although planes hadn't been invented yet in the Revolutionary War, these people patrolled the Bay on their boats.
What were pilots?
500

The Bay has 26 of this kind of species, including the hawksbill turtle and the shortnose sturgeon.

What is endangered?

500
The Bay is part of the Intracoastal Waterway, because it's within two of these.
What are coasts?
500
Being naturally defensible, these were desirable locations for settlements.
What are bluffs?