…you would be able to answer all these questions! This week and next, students are presenting the fruits of their research on a Puget Sound topic. Students, use what you’ved learned in class today to answer some of the questions below.

1) Biterns and Snowy Egrets are all kinds of:
A) Dragonflies
B) Pencil Gnomes
C) Herons
D) Tidal power generators

2) The eye of a Green Darner Dragonfly has _____________ lenses
a) 2
b) 200
c) 20,000
d) too many for us to count

3) Tidal power is thought to be better than other kinds of green energy sources like solar power and wind power because:
a) it doesn’t have to be on land and won’t get in the way of things we do on land.
b) tidal energy does not stop if the weather changes.
c) anything that has to do with the water is generally more interesting.
d) anything that was a good idea in 787 AD must be a good idea today.

Dogfish, sea stars, otters, and human all love to eat this Puget Sound bivalve. It is:
a) a geoduck
b) a gooeyduck
c) a sea pen
d) a double layer chocolate cake with algae frosting

A place in the ocean where overgrowth of algae or sea weed has sucked the oxygen from the water, suffocating the animals (clams and fish) that live there, is called:
a) an icky place
b) the back of a 5th grader’s desk
c) that place where there is no cell phone reception
d) a dead zone

Red Tide is caused by:
a) someone spilling red paint in the ocean
b) a neurtoxin producing dinoflagellate
c) too much red sea weed
d) come on, there’s no such thing as red tide, tides are blue or green…or sometimes brown…but never red!

Our local football team, the Seahawks, is actually another name for:
a) the peregrine falcon
b) red tide
c) a green darer dragonfly
d) a really cool looking kite

One way that otters stay warm in cold water is:
a) to put on an otterskin coat.
b) to start a fire in the fireplace.
c) to eat lots and lots and lots of clams with butter to build up a layer of fat.
d) their fur fills with tiny air bubbles to provide insulation from the cold.