Help Crabby Find His Home in the
Seagrasses!



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Rays, Skates, and Sharks are examples primitive fish that
do not have any bones. They have cartilage instead.
Cownose rays and bluntnose stingrays are two types of
rays that enter the Chesapeake Bay. Schools of young
sandbar sharks enter into the Bay in the summer.


More AnSUSErPS:

Match That Fish: Bluefish 3; Striped Bass 4; Flounder |; Eel 2

Which two are the same?: 2 and 5



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Bay Mud

Crabs Water

Tide Estuary

Salinity Shells

Fish Shad

Oysters Heron

Boats Lighthouse

Marsh Buoy


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Blenny Oyster

Crab Pearl

Eel Reef

Goby Sea Squirt

Magothy Skilletfish

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RECIPES
FOR KIDS

CRAB BALL

CRAB
MEAT

1 LB CRAB MEAT
2 PACKAGES (3 OZS) CREAM CHEESE

PICK CRAB MEAT LOOKING FOR SHELLS

MAKE SURE CREAM CHEESE IS ROOM
TEMPERTURE

MIX TOGETHER AND MAKE INTO A BALL.
STORE IN REFRIGERATOR TIL READY TO
EAT.

MIX KETCHUP AND HORSERADISH
TOGETHER (HAVE MOM TASTE SO IT'S
NOT TOO SPICy).

WHEN READY TO SERVE, POUR KETCHUP
MIXTURE OVER THE CRAB BALL AND
SERVE WITH CRACKERS.

MOM & DAD WILL LOVE THIS TREAT.



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picture?

Tire Bottle
Fishing Rod Umbrella
Shovel Pencil

Comb Boot



Chesapectke Bay “Meitel Leib”

Directions: Fill in the mad lib list, then copy your mad libs into the blanks in
the story below. Once you have filled in all the blanks, read your completed
story for a fun look at how animals and habitats depend on each other for
survival.

Mad Lib List:

1. Family member

2. Somebody’s name

3. Animal

4. Color

5. Animal

6. Things

7. Animal

I was swimming down the Chesapeake Bay one autumn day with

my ———— and our friend ————— who

isa - very early in morning. A large

started to chase us. I think he

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wanted to eat us for breakfast! We ran quickly to get away from
it and hid in some that were along the shore
of the Bay. We sure were lucky they were there so we could get

away. We found some while we where

there that we ate for lunch.


horseshoe crab

Did you know that horseshoe crabs are one of the oldest
living animals on the earth? They are called living fossils
because their appearance has not changed in 360 million
years.


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Mussels can be found attached to rocks, stones,

one another or other items by releasing
hundreds of threads that cement them to the
rocks. Mussels can move very slowly, by
abandoning the old threads and forming new
ones a short distance away.


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Chesapeake Bay

Activity Book



Color Me!

Oysters were once so abundant in the Chesapeake Bay
that the population in the late 1800's could have filtered
the bay’s entire water volume in just three days. Today’s
population would take more than a year to accomplish

the same task!


Cem you help the Osprey find it's
nest?



RECIPES
FOR KIDS

TUNA NUGGETS

TUNA

2 CANS TUNA (7 OZS)

1 TBLS LEMON JUICE

2 TSP HORSERADISH

2 PACKAGES (3 OZS EA.) CREAM CHEESE
% TSP LIQUID HOT PEPPER SAUCE

1 CUP CHOPPED PARSLEY

DRAIN AND FLAKE TUNA. ADD CHEESE
AND SEASONINGS. MIX THOROUGHLY.
SHAPE TUNA INTO SMALL BALLS. ROLL
IN PARSLEY AND CHILL.



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Juvenile
Crab

Blue Crab Life Cycle

Did you know that a single female blue crab can produce
up to eight million eggs in one mating season? Of the
many eggs that hatch, as few as two may live to
reproduce, therefore it is very important to minimize
capture of the female blue crab.


Did you know that more than 350 species of fish are
known to occur in the Chesapeake Bay region? Of these
fish species, only 32 species are year-round residents of
the Bay. The remaining species enter the Bay either from
freshwater streams or the Atlantic Ocean to feed,
reproduce, and find shelter.


WMateh the Fish

Draw a line from half a fish on the left to the other half on the right to see
what Striped Bass, Eel, Founder and Bluefish look like.

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Color Me!

The Chesapeake Bay serves as a home to thousands of
different plants and animals that live in a variety of
different places (habitats) including shallow or deep
waters, sand or muddy bottoms, and seagrass or oyster
beds. These habitats are all parts of the ecosystem, which
provides food, protection, and shelter for animals. Each
plant and animal is connected to others in the Bay. They
depend on each other for survival, and even a little
change can affect this system.


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marsh periwinkle

Did you know that the marsh periwinkle can survive out
of water for up to 42 days without being damaged, and
can be placed in fresh water, which usually kills marine
animals, for 11 days?


Copies of this material can be downloaded from: http://www.nccos.noaa.gov/education/cbbook

Produced by: Susan Baker, NOAA National Centers
for Coastal Ocean Sciences

Seaberry Nachbar, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

Joyce Lowman, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office

http://www.noaa.gov



The Chesapeake Bay Watershed

* What is a watershed?
The Chesapeake Bay receives about half of its water from the Atlantic Ocean.
The rest drains into the Bay from an enormous 64,000 square-mile drainage
basin or watershed. Freshwater from Springs, streams, small creeks and rivers
flows downhill into the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay watershed, stretches across
six states - New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West
Virginia - and the District of Columbia.

* How is a watershed different than a wetland?
Watersheds are the land area through which water flows and drains to the
lowest point, in a stream, river, lake or bay. Wetlands are the link between the
water and the land. Wetlands can be marshes, swamps, or areas found between
dry land and water along the edges of streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, and
coastlines. Although most wetlands have standing or flowing water, many are dry
for part of the year. Wetlands are important because they can act like a filter
and remove pollutants from the water.

* Why is the Chesapeake Bay watershed important?
The Chesapeake Bay watershed is a nursery for several important species of
fish, such as white perch, Striped bass, and herring. Many fish come into the
Bay and into the Bay's streams and rivers to lay their eggs because it is a
sheltered area, The Bay watershed also provides food for many marine species
like flounder, bluefish, weakfish, menhaden, and spot that enter the Bay during
the warmer months to feed on the rich food supply.

** Did you know?
Did you know that everyone in the watershed lives just a few minutes from one
or more than 100,000 streams and rivers draining into the Chesapeake Bay?
Did you know that the Chesapeake is shallow? A Person six feet tall could wade
over 700,000 acres of the Bay without becoming completely submerged.
Did you know that during the 1600s, wolves, cougars, elk, and buffalo still
inhabited the Bay watershed?
Did you know that one drop of Bay water may contain thousands of
phytoplankton?



Nawe Ghat Animal!

Using the hints provided, can you name that animal? Your choices are: blue crab, oyster, egret,
bluefish, winter flounder, hooked mussel, periwinkle, menhanden, blue heron, seagull, snapping,
turtle.

Across; Down:
1, Crawl along rocks & seaweed, scrapping 2. Found almost all over the world, nesting,
off algae with their file-like tongue. hovering & flying along shorelines.
2. Bury themselves in bottom mud or sand, 3. Predator with a jaw full of piranha-like
teeth.
3. Crustacean like its cousins the shrimp &
crayfish, has 10 legs, 7. Found attached to rocks.
4. White with S shaped neck. 8. Blue, with wingspan over 6 feet.
5. Once harvested in millions of bushels. 9. Flat, with two eyes on one side.
6, Found in large schools near water’s ' )
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