Let the River Run Silver Again! Reading Review Questions
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Let the River Run Silver Again! Reading Review Questions In what year was the first shad program held? True or False? Each spring adult shad travel thousands of miles to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans where they were born to lay their eggs (spawn). What blocked many fish from migrating to their spawning grounds? seaweed trout dams All of the above True or False? No fish could swim upstream past a rocky barrier in Great Falls, Maryland. 5. About how many baby American shad are released by the U.S. Fish and Wild life Service? 6. During an awful winter at Valley Forge, which famous commander-in-chief saved his troops by feeding them shad? 7. Which chemical do scientists use to tell the age of a shad? otolith tetracycline chlorine none of the above 8. Who did the Aqua Eagles present their projects to after the 1996 National Watershed Conference? 9. What is an important tool that the students in the story used to help restore the quality of their stream’s habitat? 10. True or False? Wetlands are poorly drained lands where water strongly influences the types of soils, plants and animals that occur in the area. 11. From ______ to _____ biologists stocked over 1 million American shad. 12. A total land area from which water drains into a marsh, stream, river, lake, estuary or other bodies of water is called what? A) land drainage B) watershed D) Potomac River
Great Falls Chesapeake Bay Potomac River All of the Above 18. True or False? Beginning in 1956, students released over 150,000 American shad fry into the Chesapeake Bay. 19. As of 2004, the number of adult shad _________________ since the beginning of the project. 20. A(n) ___________ fish is a fish that spends part of its life in the ocean and the other part in bays and rivers. Review Question Answers 1995 False C: dams False, eels can About 1 million George Washington B: tetracycline Legislators in Annapolis, Maryland To plant native trees and plants or build a rain garden True 1995 to 2002 B: watershed True False: otoliths Plankton Ocean A: Great Falls False: into the Potomac River D: Has doubled Anadromous fish © Burk & Assoc. LLC, 2010 for USFWS Download 14.48 Kb. Share with your friends:
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