1. The Salmon Review Game Show
Life Cycle
Species
Environment
Body Characteristics
Interesting Facts
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2. Life cycles for 100
Salmon stop feeding and head back to their home stream when they are ready to do this.
What is spawn?
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3. Life cycles for 200
The orange part of the alevin that provides nourishment.
What is the yolk sac?
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4. What are egg, fry, alevin, smolt, adult, and spawning?
Life cycles for 300
Name the 6 stages of the salmon life cycle.
What are egg, fry, alevin, smolt, adult, and spawning?
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5. Life cycles for 400
Name the stage of its life the salmon travels from fresh water to salt water.
What is smolt?
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6. Life cycles for 500
This is what takes place to a salmon’s body during the smolting process.
What is their parr marks fade away as they get more distinctly counter-shaded and silvery to survive ocean conditions?
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7. Species for 100 The name of the smallest Pacific Northwest Salmon.
What is a Pink Salmon?
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8. Species for 200
The name of the Pacific Northwest Salmon that is not a good jumper.
What is a Chum?
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9. Species for 300 How much a Chinook salmon can weigh as an adult.
What is a 100 pounds?
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10. What are the Sockeye and Coho species?
Species for 400
The two Pacific Northwest salmon that have red and green bodies during spawning.
What are the Sockeye and Coho species?
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11. What are the Chum, Chinook, Coho, Pink and Sockeye?
Species for 500
The name of the five Pacific Northwest salmon species.
What are the Chum, Chinook, Coho, Pink and Sockeye?
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12. Environment for 100 The greatest enemy of the salmon. What are humans?
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13. Environment for 200
Salmon lay their eggs along the rocky banks of rivers for these 2 reasons.
What are for protection from the sun and from being carried away by the current of the water?
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14. What are build homes, cut down trees and pollute streams?
Environment for 300
List three ways people destroy the homes of salmon.
What are build homes, cut down trees and pollute streams?
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15. Environment for 400
List four things adults can do to keep water safe for fish.
What are using less chemicals, not fertilizing, not dumping oil or other waste down storm drains, and not building dams?
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16. Environment for 500
List four examples of why a salmon would not survive to adulthood.
What is getting eaten by predators, not getting fertilized during the egg stage, not getting enough food, and poor living conditions in a stream?
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17. Characteristics for 100 The number of fins on a salmon’s body.
What is 6 fins?
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18. What are the dorsal fin and the anal fin?
Characteristics for 200
The names of the two fins that are used for balance.
What are the dorsal fin and the anal fin?
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19. What is the lateral line?
Characteristics for 300
This part of the salmon helps it sense movement in the water.
What is the lateral line?
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20. Characteristics for 400 The names of all the fins found on a salmon.
What is the dorsal fin, adipose fin, pectoral fin, pelvic fin, anal fin and caudal fin?
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21. Characteristics for 500
Name two things the slimy covering over the scales does to help protect the salmon.
What is keep fungi and bacteria off the fish and help the fish slide easily through the water?
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22. Interesting Facts for 100
A fry will have these on its side to help with camouflage.
What are parr marks?
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23. What is homing instinct?
Interesting Facts for 200
This tells the salmon which stream to return to so they can spawn.
What is homing instinct?
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24. Interesting Facts for 300
An animal that can live in both fresh and salt water is called this.
What is anadromous?
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25. Interesting Facts for 400
Out of 3,000 eggs, this is how many will survive and return to their home stream to spawn.
What is only 2 or 3?
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26. Interesting Facts for 500
The name of the creek that was brought back to life by school children in the city of Everett.
What is Pigeon Creek?
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