Estuaries and the Chesapeake Bay

What type of Estuary is the Chesapeake Bay?

• Fjord

• Drowned River Valley

• Bar-Built

• Tectonic

What are the 6 states of the Chesapeake Bay watershed?

• New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina

• Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina

• New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware

• New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina

What are the 4 types of estuaries?

• Fjord, drowned river valley, Bar-built, and Delta

• Fjord, delta, bar-built, and tectonic

• Drowned river valley, bar-built, delta, and tectonic

• Fjord, drowned river valley, bar-built, and tectonic

What is an estuary?

• Fully enclosed coastal body of water where rivers mix with the ocean

• Partially enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from the ocean mixes with saltwater from rivers

• Partially enclosed coastal body of water where freshwater from rivers mixes with saltwater from the ocean

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Which river provides 50% of the freshwater in the Bay?

• Sassafras

• Nanticoke

• Susquehanna

• Chester

What are the two types of pollution?

• Point source and nonpoint source

• Specific source and nonspecific source

• Concise source and nonconcise source

• pollution and not pollution

What is the ocean that covered the Chesapeake Bay watershed?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Iapetus Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

What was the name of the super continent that collided 500 mya, helping generate minerals such as asbestos, gold, and silver.

• Asia

• Australia

• Pangaea

• Europe

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