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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?________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 2. Find the map of Newport Bay by the front door. What are two sources of freshwater for this estuary? _________________________________ 3. ________________________________ 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:_______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Hawk Food Chain: 4. _______________ Upper Newport Back Bay: _______________ _______________ 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: 1) Birds Species____________ How many of these are endangered?_______ 2) Mammal Species_________ 3) Fish Species_____________ C. What is a wetland and what ecosystem services do wetlands perform? _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Vanishing Habitat Wall Near Pelicans 5. 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? _______________________________________________________________________ Working Wetlands 8. 9. List 6 major causes of habitat loss. _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ How is a wetland like a strainer?_____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 10. How is a wetland like an egg beater?_________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 11. How is a wetland like a sponge?_____________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 2 12. How is a wetland like a hotel?______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 13. What bird builds a floating nest and what is the nest made out of? _______________________________________________________________________ 14. What keeps the floating nest from drifting downstream? _______________________________________________________________________ Explore the Uplands (Back wall by turkey vulture that is hanging from the ceiling) 15. What are the two upland habitats surrounding Newport Bay? _________________________ 16. What are four animals that can be found in the coastal sage scrub community? _______________ 17. _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ What are two ways that burrowing owls differ from other species of owls? _________________________ 19. _______________ What are four animals that can be found in the grassland community that surrounds Newport Bay? _______________ 18. _________________________ _________________________ Why is a woodrat sometimes referred to as a packrat? _______________________________________________________________________ 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? ____________________ ____________________ 3 _______________________ 21. What are two ways that the bill of the long-billed curlew differs from that of the marbled godwit? ________________________________________________________________________ 22. How do the bills of the western and least sandpipers differ from the bill of the semipalmated plover? _______________________________________________________________________ 23. Why do the bills of different species shorebirds differ so much in length? _______________________________________________________________________ 24. Why can you find so many birds on the mud flats of estuaries at low tide? _______________________________________________________________________ 25. Why does the mud in estuaries stink? _______________________________________________________________________ 26. Which habitat at Newport Bay has the most organisms? _______________________________________________________________________ Migration Wall 27. Why to birds migrate from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds? _______________________________________________________________________ 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. 4 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? 5