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Chesapeake bay

Chesapeake bay. Team one.

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Chesapeake bay

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  1. Chesapeake bay Team one

  2. The Chesapeake bay covers 2,200 square miles. Almost as big as Delaware, 150 rivers and streams, it holds 18 trillion gallons of water. The animals that live there are crabs, fish, muskrats, seahorses , swans, dimendbacked termagants, and billions of baby eels. The environment is swamps, wetlands, meadows, forests, mounts and beaches. 2,500 different kinds of plants an animals live there. The bay is a ecosystem the elements are water land air light and living things. This is a complete web of realeshaneships.

  3. The Chesapeake bay is covers with farms factories cities highways schools apartment buildings landfills campgrounds. 13 million people live work and play there. They pollutes by overfertilizeing and rood salt cars help make acid rain. Sooner or later this all goes to the Chesapeake bay.

  4. Terrarium as the watershed for your aquarium. The Chesapeake bay water shed is huge. It drains from six states. Naralend, Delaware, pennsavana, vergina, west Virginia and new York. It covers 64,000 square miles.

  5. Think of the bay as a bath tub. It is mostly all down hill. That means that the leftovers from the city goes to the bay. The mud can run from the construction sites in Maryland.

  6. People are putting to much polutants in the bay. People over harvesting (takeing to much sea food out of the bay, this can stop the sycle the bay goes by.

  7. TO MANY POLLUTANTS The plants can die when we over fertilize. This can kill kinds of plants that the bay animals eat.

  8. THE grass helps hold down the muddy bottom the bay. Animals need the under water grasses to. Duck, Geese, swans, snails, isipods, worms, muscerats, beavers, sea slugs and other animals.fish need them for there eggs. What will happen if these grass beds tisaber?

  9. Leaves so it hits and branchescushen rain fall so it hits the ground. People cut down 100 trees in chesapeake bay

  10. Oysters: nature`s filter Oysters serve as naturel filters, helping keep the Water clean. To trap its food mircroscopic algae , an oysters pumps in water- up to twogallons per Hour!

  11. Go fish • Many difforent kinds of fish live in or viset the bay for part of the year. Fish that live there for part or viset seem to be doing fine.

  12. The cheaspeake bay still pourdus about half of the naithons blue crab harvest. But even the blue crab is showing signs of trouble.

  13. If the animals in your ecocoloms had been thretend by poloshon. The sholoshon would had been simmple : move them to a reall place like chesapeek bay. Do you agry????? • Yes or no?

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