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Chesapeak Bay

By: Margaret, Max, Michael and Jack. Chesapeak Bay. Ecosytem in Danger. Exploring The Bay. In the small rivers in the years there were plenty of small fish. In 1608 Captain John Smith found a bunch of fish on the bay. The Chesapke bay is an ecosystem.

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Chesapeak Bay

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  1. By: Margaret, Max, Michael and Jack Chesapeak Bay Ecosytem in Danger

  2. Exploring The Bay • In the small rivers in the years there were plenty of small fish. • In 1608 Captain John Smith found a bunch of fish on the bay.

  3. The Chesapke bay is an ecosystem • The bay area is a vast and complicated ecosystem. • The bay holds 18 trillion gallons of water. It covers a surface area over 2200 square miles

  4. How is the bay like your ecosystem • Yes, because there are fish and lots of bugs living on the plants. • Yes, because it has plants above the water.

  5. What is water shed • An area of land whose water drains into the same place. • The water can drain water from six states, those states are, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York. Covers 64,000 sqaure miles Between Vermont and North Carolina

  6. It’s all down hill • So much of the water that runs off this land the slop toward the bay. • Land in the water shed slopes toward the bay, just like the water in the bathtub would go towards the drain.

  7. The importance of grass • Animals need under water grasses. • Animals of the bay depend on baby fish, shrimp, crab, seahorses and even turtles stay safe.

  8. Sediment kills • Humans especially when we cut down trees and other vegetion. • Some sedementationoccours but humans cause most of it.

  9. Oysters: natures filters • Oysters serve as natural filters, helping keep the water. • To trap it’s food, microscopic algae, and oyster pumps in water –up two gallons per hour.

  10. Go fish • Some have weird names such as cownose ray and hogchocker. • Many different kinds of fish live in or visit the bay for part of the year.

  11. The Last Great Catch • The bay still produses about half of the blue crabs harvest. • The crab are great survivers. They eat almost anything that they can find.

  12. Serching for solotions • We all know that solving problems reqareis making compromises. • Animals in your ecocollemms had been threatened by pollotion.

  13. The End

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