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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
What does the Algonquian word, Chesepiooc, from which the Chesapeake Bay gets its name, mean?
"Oysters live here"
"Village at big river"
"Original People's Village"
"Little Water"
Which is not a trail at SERC?
Water trail
Discovery trail
Squirrel Neck trail
Java trail
What was the name of SERC before it became SERC?
Chesapeake Bay Smithsonian Research Center
Smithsonian on the Bay
Smithsonian Conservation Center
Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Studies
How many miles long is the Rhode River?
2 miles
3 miles
4 miles
5 miles
SERC changed its name from the Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Studies to what?
Smithsonian Chesapeake Bay Center
Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies
Smithsonian on the Bay
Smithsonian of the Chesapeake
What is it called when water does not have enough oxygen due to an algal bloom?
Hypoxia
Anemia
Acidification
Algal shift
What marine mammal likes to use the SERC docks as a latrine?
What creature is responsible for the age of the Anthropocene, which is what we're living in now?
Dinosaurs
Mammals
Birds
Humans
What was the name of the man who came from England in the 1649 with his family, and settled the land that is now the SERC Campus?
Thomas Sparrow
Fredrick Wren
John Heron
Benjamin Woodpecker
After growing up, Tom Sparrow's son took on a trade. What was it?
Carpenter
Barrel Maker
Brick Maker
Pirate
What Pan-Smithsonian (Smithsonian-wide) collaboration tracks the migration of animals around the world.
Marine Geo
Forest Geo
Movement of Life
Conservation Commons
SERC Scientist Lindsey Haram works with the Ocean Voyages Institute, whose volunteers help track what, by marking and releasing it back into the ocean?
How many tons of chicken poop, mixed with feathers and uneaten feed, is scraped out of a single poultry farm a year?
50,000 lbs
1 ton
40 tons
90 tons
What do people wear during Covid-19, to protect their coworkers, staff, volunteers, and visitors?
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Respiratory protective equipment (RPE)
Universal protective equipment (UPE)
Community protective equipment (CPE)
How many trees are in the SERC Biodiversatree Program?
5,000
10,000
20,000
40,000
In what decade did SERC become the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center? Which of these hair styles was popular then?
How many sub-watersheds does the Rhode River have?
12
14
16
18
What did early colonists that worked on the Contee Farm stuff hog's heads with?
Tobacco
Tripe
Furs
Corn
What type of orchid grows at SERC, is studied by SERC researchers, and is beloved as a symbol of Mother's day since it blooms then?
Ghost orchid
Lady slipper orchid
Monkey's face orchid
Vanilla orchid
SERC scientists determined that early Native Americans from the woodland period (500 BC-1100 AD) changed soil chemistry by leaving midden mounds of what?
Animal bones
Pottery shards
Fish bones
Oyster shells
What is the name of this robot, that was once at SERC?
Paprika
Basil
Salt
Pepper
What is recorded at the big tower behind the Mathias Lab?
Weather and UV light
Rainfall and cloud cover
UV light and solar flares
Weather and doppler radar
When SERC was first forming, as the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, what were the first laboratories?
Mobile trailers
A pole barn
Cow stanchions in a barn
A hay drying loft
What does the SERC and Smithsonian Barcode of Life initiative strive to do?
Track Bay animals in grocery store food
Create a barcode tracking system for labeling specimens in a lab
Track tree growth and development in forests
Create a DNA database of genetic barcodes of all life on Earth
From the archives: What is this scientist doing?
Listening to fish songs.
Tracking blue crabs.
Listening for water noise pollution.
Listening to groovy submarine songs undrwater.
