Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary Quiz
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1.
Henry Stellwagen mapped the entirety of the Bank in which years?
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1789-90
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1825-26
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1854-55
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1915-16
2.
Endangered right whales come to the Sanctuary and Cape Cod Bay in January-April
to feed on...
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calanoid
copepods
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sand
lance
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lion's
mane jellies
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shortfin
squid
3.
The World Wildlife Fund has called this area one of the top 10 whalewatching
sites in the world. What whales are commonly seen in the summer whalewatching
season?
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right
whales, belugas and sperm whales
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orcas, sei and blue whales
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humpbacks,
finbacks and minke whales
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pilot, bowhead and pygmy sperm whales
4.
What type of dolphin can be seen in pods of over 50 animals, and sometimes
in super pods numbering up to 1,000?
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white-beaked
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bottlenose
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Atlantic
white-sided
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common
5.
What are the deepest and shallowest depths in the Sanctuary?
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100
feet / 30 feet
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300
feet / 15 feet
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600
feet / 65 feet
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1,000
feet / 300 feet
6.
What year was Stellwagen Bank designated a National Marine Sanctuary?
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1972
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1975
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1982
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1992
7.
What types of fish are not normally found in the Sanctuary?
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Atlantic
cod, winter flounder and blue shark
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Goosefish,
wolffish, and spiny dogfish
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Acadian redfish, silver hake, mako shark
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Queen angelfish, moray eel and grouper
8.
When was the geological origin of Stellwagen Bank?
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5,000
years ago
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18,000
years ago
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100,000
years ago
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1.5
million years ago
9.
What activity is not prohibited in the Sanctuary?
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incineration
of trash
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sand
and gravel mining
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transferring
of petroleum protucts
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discharging
of fish wastes
10.
What types of sharks are not found in the Sanctuary?
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mako
and basking sharks
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smooth
dogfish and whale sharks
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spiny
dogfish and porbeagles
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blue
and thresher sharks
11.
Which summer bird flies down to southern South America and Antarctica
for our winter?
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Wilson's
storm petrel
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Common
tern
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Manx
shearwater
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Herring
gull
12.
What type of whale uses a feeding technique called "bubble net feeding"
in the Sanctuary?
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finback
whale
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humpback
whale
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minke
whale
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right
whale
13.
Whalewatching guidelines suggest that if one boat is 100 feet from a
whale, two other boats can stay in a standby zone that is this far away
from the whale...
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150-500
feet
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200-400
feet
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300-600
feet
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400-800
feet
14.
Which of these whales is not considered endangered?
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humpback
whale
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finback
whale
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minke
whale
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sei
whale
15.
How many areas have been designated National Marine Sanctuaries?
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8
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13
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16
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20
How did you do
on our quiz?
15 Correct: Hooray!
You are a Stellwagen Sanctuary Star.
11-14 Correct:
Great job! Keep checking our web page for new and exciting information
about the Sanctuary.
6-10 Correct:
Good, but not great. You may like to read about the many fascinating
resources, uses and stories about the Sanctuary on this web page.
0-5 Correct:
Oops!
Time to take a more in-depth look at the wb page for the Stellwagen
Bank National Marine
Sanctuary, the only such marine protected area in the northeast.
