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Use the booklet A Guide To The Housatonic River Estuary to learn about Connecticut estuaries and how we affect them. You may mark the photocopy that you will keep and refer to the color booklet as needed, but please do not mark it.
2. As you read the booklet, highlight or underline words or phrases to indicate where to find the information about the learning objectives. Remember: if you highlight more than five words in a paragraph, you are coloring, not highlighting.
3. Next to each area where you found information, write the objective number in the margin so you can find it later.
4. As you read the booklet, write the page number where you find information after the objective on this handout. This will help you find your highlighted areas later.
5. What you have created in this process is an index for the booklet so you can quickly find the information you need so you can now write a response under 10 of the objectives in your own words. If the objectives says you should know how something happens, write a response describing how it happens. If the objective is a statement of information, re-write it in your own words.
1. that estuaries are the tidal waters where rivers reach the
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2. that estuaries are the most diverse and productive zones for
life because of the energy and nutrients from the
combination of fresh water flows, tides, sea water
flows, and marine and fresh water deposition.
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3. how the production of organic matter in an estuary compares to other
ecosystems.
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4. the basic food web of an estuary, and how this is based on the physical
functioning of the estuary.
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5. what living organisms rely on estuary habitat and why.
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6. how estuaries support commercial fishing
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7. what tidal wetlands and mud flats are, and their function in relation to pollution
and coastal protection from storm waves.
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8. that because of their location, estuaries are prime areas for
development for homes, marinas, industrial sites and
shipping facilities, which destroy the natural
functioning of the estuary.
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9. how much estuary area has been lost because of various reasons.
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10. an outline of the history of human use of an example estuary area, and how
this history was influenced by the natural features of the estuary.
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11. how estuary quality and tourism are interelated.
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12. how pollution of both fresh water and oceans will affect the
estuary.
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13. sources of pollution that affect estuary areas.
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14. how to protect estuaries from upland and shore area pollution.
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15. what has been done to protect and restore estuaries.
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16. what estuary is most directly affected by runoff from your neighborhood.
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17. where to get more information about estuaries.
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