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Name:____________________
Class days and hours:___________
Upper Newport Bay
Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center
Note: You Will Need a Camera to Complete the Last Part of This Assignment
Wall Near Front Door
1.
What is an estuary?________________________________________________________
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2.
Find the map of Newport Bay by the front door. What are two sources of freshwater for
this estuary?
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3.
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What is a food web? According to the display on the wall that has plankton in the
middle, what is the food chain of a hawk?
Food Web:_______________________________________________________________
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Hawk Food Chain:
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Upper Newport Back Bay:
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General Information Panels
A.
How many acres does Newport Bay Cover?____________________________
B.
How many species of the following groups have been recorded at Newport Bay:
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Birds Species____________ How many of these are endangered?_______
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Mammal Species_________
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Fish Species_____________
C.
What is a wetland and what ecosystem services do wetlands perform?
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Vanishing Habitat Wall Near Pelicans
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What is the primary cause of plant and animal extinction?________________________
6.
What is the percentage of wetlands that have disappeared in southern California?_____
Atrium of Flight
7.
The three pelicans hanging from the ceiling are brown pelicans. Brown pelicans almost
went extinct in California due to the effects of high concentrationsof DDT in their tissues.
How would you describe the shape of the upper beak of a pelican?
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Working Wetlands
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List 6 major causes of habitat loss.
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How is a wetland like a strainer?_____________________________________________
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10.
How is a wetland like an egg beater?_________________________________________
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11.
How is a wetland like a sponge?_____________________________________________
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12.
How is a wetland like a hotel?______________________________________________
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13.
What bird builds a floating nest and what is the nest made out of?
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14.
What keeps the floating nest from drifting downstream?
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Explore the Uplands (Back wall by turkey vulture that is hanging from the ceiling)
15.
What are the two upland habitats surrounding Newport Bay?
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16.
What are four animals that can be found in the coastal sage scrub community?
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What are two ways that burrowing owls differ from other species of owls?
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What are four animals that can be found in the grassland community that surrounds
Newport Bay?
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18.
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Why is a woodrat sometimes referred to as a packrat?
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Tunnel of Mud
20.
Enter the tunnel of mud. Get down on your hands and knees to view the exhibit of the
Innkeeper. What is the Innkeeper? Where does it live? Who shares its home?
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21.
What are two ways that the bill of the long-billed curlew differs from that of the marbled
godwit?
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22.
How do the bills of the western and least sandpipers differ from the bill of the
semipalmated plover?
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23.
Why do the bills of different species shorebirds differ so much in length?
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24.
Why can you find so many birds on the mud flats of estuaries at low tide?
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25.
Why does the mud in estuaries stink?
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26.
Which habitat at Newport Bay has the most organisms?
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Migration Wall
27.
Why to birds migrate from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds?
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Final Touches
28.
You need to take the following photographs and turn them in stapled to this worksheet:
A.
A photograph of yourself in front of the interpretive center.
B.
A photograph of a view of Newport Bay
C.
A photograph of the coastal sage plant community that surrounds the interpretive
center.
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29.
Please take a walk on one of the trails near the interpretive center or take a driving tour
drive through Newport Bay. In order to take a driving tour through Newport Bay:
Turn left on University Drive as you exit the interpretive center
Turn right on Irvine Avenue
Turn right on Bristol
Turn right on Jamboree
Turn Right on Back Bay Dive which becomes a one way road that goes through both
Lower and Upper Newport Bay
30.
What part of this assignment did you like the most? Why?
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