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WorksheetsReading 5.2 – Fisherman’s Journal
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 25mins
Sometimes journals are called diaries. ______________ are a way to record thoughts, feelings, events, and ideas.
Journals
Coffee
Snacks
Happiness
An organism from the food _________ has both direct and indirect effects.
spider
web
lane
life
In _____________, a Great Lakes fisherman wrote the journal you are about to read. This is about the same time the graph you looked at shows the trout population going down.
1538
1638
1938
1838
"Some of the _________ are showing up with these strange wounds on the sides of their bodies. The wounds are mainly showing up on the big fish like the lake trout and salmon, which I can sell for the most money."
fish
squid
cats
worms
"The _________ make the fish useless to me because nobody is going to buy a fish with that kind of hole on its body!'
squid
trout
octopus
cats
"Trout are large fish and can weigh as much as ___________ pounds and be 27" long."
10
1
100
1,000
a female trout can lay between 20-800 eggs
True
False
About 1-2% of the eggs will survive to adulthood
True
False
What term describes a level of organization that contains only one species?
Ecosystem
Population
Community
Biome
Journal from Ron Coleman, a Lake Michigan fisherman:
Saturday, September 15, 1938
Today's catch was much smaller than usual again. I don't
understand why I keep having this bad luck this year.
true
false
What is the original source of almost all energy in most ecosystems?
carbohydrates
sunlight
water
carbon
PE is a short form of
Physical Elementary
Physical Education
Physics
How many states are there?
52
53
49
50
What is intelligence?
A measure of how smart someone is.
What your brain is made of.
A really long word I've never seen before.
How quickly your computer works.
Human brains aren't fully developed until a person reaches their mid-twenties.
True
False
How were the Great Lakes actually formed?
climate change
earthquakes
glaciers
man made
Why do the invasive species overtake a habitat so quickly?
because they have no natural predators
Because they always like new food
Because of non-point source population
Because of point-source population
What are the 5 Great Lakes?
Lake Mississippi, Lake Michigan. Lake Superior, Lake Erie and Lake Huron
Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Lake Huron
Lake Independence, Lake Michigan, Lake Mendota, Lake Huron, Lake Erie
Lake Mendota, Lake Hubbard, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Erie
Why were the sand eels dying off?
They preferred cold water plankton, which moved to a new environment
The puffin were eating too many of them
The water became too cold for the sand eels
How did the cold water plankton affect the puffin?
The puffin ate the plankton, and now they did not have enough food
The plankton moved, the sand eels did not have enough food, and the puffin couldn't eat the eels
The plankton moved north, which caused the puffin to move north
Which part of a food web has the greatest effect on the rest of the food web?
Top of the food chain predator
Consumers
Producers
What was the problem with the puffin?
At one time they had 24,000+ nests, and now most of them are empty
They are overpopulating the coastal regions of Scotland
They use a lot of energy to find food so they do not have enough energy to produce eggs
There are not enough sand eels for them to eat
Baby puffins are called
puffles
pufflings
pufflets
puff-puffs
How tall are puffins?
10 inches
15 inches
20 inches
25 inches
How deep underwater can a puffin dive?
100 feet
(As deep as a 10 story building)
200 feet
(As deep as a 20 story building)
