The Chesapeake Bay has a wide range of animal species that depend upon it. Some of these animal species are indiginous while others are nonindiginous.
Your job as the Species expert for your group will be to examine the various animals that depend on the Bay, the effect they have on the Bay, the ways and amounts they have changed in the past 100-200 years.
You will follow the links below to find this information.
Questions to drive your research:
What are at least 5 diferent animal species that currently live on the Bay?
Which species are indiginous and which are nonindigious?
How does this animal affect the Bay?
Has this animal changed over the past 100-200 years? How? Why?
Based on just this aspect of the Bay, what is your opinion of the overall question?
| Link #1: The Bay Foundation | A link to the sponsoring organization |
| Link #2: The Chesapeake Bay Program | Another organization which helps improve the bay |
| Link #3: The Geological Survey | A link which describes a possiblity for how the bay was formed |
| Link #4: Chesapeake Bay Front page | Very current and easy to find information |
| Link #5: The Chesapeake Bay Homepage | A ton of well organized information |
| Link #6: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | A national perspective of the bay and it's inhabitants |
| Link #8: Bay Journal | An online newslettercovering political, and scientific updates |
| Link #9 Agriculture and the bay | The University of Maryland information on the Bay |