1. Water Quality Review
Let’s see how you do…

2. Warm Up Questions… What is an estuary?
What are the 3 Living Things of the Salt Marsh that help determine water quality?
What are the 5 Non-Living Things of the Slat Marsh that help us to determine the health?

3. Question #1
What is a macroinvertebrate?

4. Questions 2 - 4
#2 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate that is very sensitive to pollution?
#3 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate that is somewhat sensitive to pollution?
#4 What is an example of a macroinvertebrate that is very tolerant to pollution?

5. Question 5
#5 What are the 2 types of adaptations?

6. Question 6
#6 What plant is known as the bully of the salt marsh because it is very invasive and crowds out native plants?

7. Question #7
#7 What are the special root systems of some plants that help it to reproduce quickly and spread throughout the marsh?

8. Questions
#8 What does pH measure? #9 What pH reading is neutral? #10 What are 3 things that affect pH readings?

9. Question 11
What is turbidity?

10. Question
#12 What is salinity? #13 What do we mean by brackish water?

11. Question #14
What is DO?

12. Question #15
Colder water or warmer water – Which one can hold more Dissolved Oxygen?

13. Question #16
What are some things or situations that add more DO to the water?

14. Question #17
Here’s a hard one…What is known as the battery of our wetland?
Here’s a hint: It begins with the letters De…

15. Question #18
What are 2 special adaptations of a fish that you would find in the wetland?

16. Question #19
What are 3 reasons that wetlands are so wonderful and amazing?

17. Question #20
What are 3 ways that our wetlands are being destroyed? 