The Great Lakes Vocab, Evidence and Reasoning

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Term for the area where all rivers and streams flow into a lake or sea?

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watershed

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Insects feed on algae and plants in the Great Lakes. Tiny fish eat insects, larger fish eat small fish, and eagles eat larger fish.

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Great Lakes food chain

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DDT poisoning in the Great Lakes affected:

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fish-eating birds

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Sea lamprey & zebra mussel are part of which Great Lake issue?

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invasive species

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Definition of "food chain"

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A series of plants and animals, each depending on the one below for food.

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Species depending on smelt:

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lake trout and herring gulls

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If all phytoplankton die due to pollution, how does this impact the food chain?

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The smelt, lake trout, and herring gulls would lose all their food sources.

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Great Lakes count?

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5

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Lake Ontario connects to the Atlantic Ocean through which river?

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St. Lawrence River

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Flow of Great Lakes to Atlantic:

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Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario, St. Lawrence River