Save the Bay! A Chesapeake Bay Exploration!

Finish the sentence.

The Chesapeake Bay is __________.

• An important part of our education curriculum

• A diverse ecosystem that supports a wide variety of wildlife and plantlife

• An Estuary

• An mportant natural resource to protect with ongoing conservation efforts

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The Chesapeake Bay is surrounded by a land mass whose

rivers, streams, and tributaries drain into it from across multiple states.

What is this land mass called?

• A Watertribe

• A Waterwhip

• A Watershed

• A Waterflow

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True or False?

The Chesapeake is a freshwater bay.

• True

• False

The Chesapeake Bay contains brackish water.

What does this mean?

• It is a combination of hot water and cold water

• It is a combination of clear water and murky water

• It is a combination of living water and dead water

• It is a combination of fresh water and salt water

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The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is made up of ____ many states,

plus ____.

• 5 states,

  plus Chincoteague Island

• 6 states,

  plus D.C.

• 4 states,

  plus Puerto Rico

• 7 states,

  plus Canada

Choose the vocabulary word that matches the following definition:

The prevention of the wasteful use of resources,

or an effort to protect.

• Environmental

  Literacy

• Accretion

• Conservation

• Biodoversity

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The Chesapeake Bay is home to

approximately how many different species of plants and animals,

including Humans.

• 3,600

• 6,300

• 2,500

• 4,700

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True of False?

Of the 3,600 species that call the Chesapeake Bay home,

over half of them are plants.

• True

• False

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What does the acronym

SAV

stand for?

• Subterranean

  Anthology Vanguard

• Submerged

  Aquatic Volunteers

• Submerged

  Aquatic Vegetation

• System

  Activation

  Verified

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American Marine Biologist

Rachel Carson

(1907-1964)

is known best for...?

• Being an environmental activist and author

• Getting the harmful insecticide

  DDT

  (dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane)

  banned in the United States in 1973

• Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980

• The book

  "Silent Spring",

  published in 1962

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