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Mrs. Viado's Chesapeake Bay Review
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1. Particles that accumulate on the bottom of a waterway.
3. Rooted vegetation which grows beneath the water surface.
5. One of the two main types of nutrients that plants use.
9. The place where a plant or animal lives.
13. An estuary that has been carved out by glaciers.
14. The plant form of plankton that lives in the ocean.
15. The type of pollution in which you know the exact source.
19. The measure of the amount of salt that is dissolved in water. Measured in parts
per thousand.
22. Semi-enclosed, tidal, coastal body of water open to the sea in which fresh water
mixes with sea water.
23. A filter feeder that is important in helping to clean the bay.
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2. A poisonous heavy metal that comes from factory smoke and is accumulative.
4. The number of states that are part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
6. Sewage treatment plants put this type of pollution into the bay.
7. This river had a major kerosene spill in 1989.
8. A group of primitive, non-flowering plants which includes certain types of seaweed.
10. The area of land that is drained by a river or other body of water.
11. The type of estuary that the Chesapeake Bay is.
12. Plants or animals living in or on the bottom in aquatic environments.
16. The river that contributes 50% of the fresh water to the bay.
17. These areas that are often covered with water, filter the water going into the bay.
18. The most northern state in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
20. The average depth of the Chesapeake Bay, in feet.
21. 35 mya a meteor struck and left this depression which re-directed the James River.